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Renju Newsletter No 41-51, 65-108 1999

-------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 13:38:10 +0100 Renju Newsletter No 108 - 1999 -------------------------------------------------- Happy New Renju Millennium!!! -------------------------- Ukraine New Year Open Dec. 28 in Zholtye Vody started New Year Open. Tournament is test tournament for European Championship 2000. Unfortunately I am the only player from abroad. 16 players were divided into four groups and 2 best from each group went to final, were we play in Round Robin. In final are: 1. Poddubny 2. Razumovsky 3. Drozd 4 Umantsev 5. Nalivka 6. Nazarov 7. Jaroshenko 8. Soosyrv Tournament conditions are well, so I suggest to have next European Championship here, in Zholtye Vody. Probably we just need to change time form December to October or November. For Estonians best time is the end of October. Friendly, Ants --------------------------- RIF China has new URL-address: http://www.rifchina.com/ -------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 23:39:10 +0100 Renju Newsletter No 107 - 1999 -------------------------------------------------- Now there are 77 presentations on the URL-address: http://www.renju.nu/players/index.html I have very short time to work with the presentations so, please, check that your presentation is OK. ------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 11:32:38 +0100 Renju Newsletter No 106 - 1999 ------------------------------------------------- Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year! Renju Championship of Armenia from December 4 till December 20 was held. I send the table of results. With best wishes Aleksey Kobzev, Albert Poghosyan "Aleksey I. Kobzev" ------------------------- You can find the table of result on the URL-address: http://www.renju.nu/armenia99.htm The three best players 1.Poghosyan Albert 2.Gevorkyan Hovhannes 3.Manukyan Mher ------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 21:56:12 +0100 Renju Newsletter No 105 - 1999 ------------------------------------------------- These are the results of Moscow Championship, final tournament. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 PtsPlace 1.Ogorodov S. x 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 - 0 0 0 1 3 12 2.Makarov P. 1 x 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 = 9= 2 3.Shubin A. 0 0 x 1 = 0 = = = 0 0 0 0 3 13 4.Nikonov K. 1 0 0 x 1 0 0 0 1 = 0 1 1 5= 7 5.Filippov S. 1 0 = 0 x 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3= 11 6.Sinyev I. 0 1 1 1 1 x 1 1 1 = = 1 1 10 1 7.Zabrodin A. 1 0 = 1 1 0 x 1 0 = 1 0 = 6= 6 8.Smirnov S. 1 1 = 1 1 0 0 x 1 1 0 1 1 8= 3 9.Nosovsky A. + 0 = 0 0 0 1 0 x 0 = 1 1 5 8 10.Fedorkin O. 1 0 1 = 1 = = 0 1 x 0 1 1 7= 5 11.Tarannikov Y.1 0 1 1 1 = 0 1 = 1 x 1 0 8 4 12.Sirategyan K.1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 x = 4= 9 13.Golosov V. 0 = 1 0 0 0 = 0 0 0 1 = x 3= 10 Please send your application to Oleg Fedorkin, fedorkin@libro.genebee.msu.su till 30, December, 1999 if you wanted to take part in next World Championship via e-mail. The application should contain your name, country, registered userid at PbEM server. List of participants of Renju World Championship tournaments - 2000 Final tournament 1.Aldis Reims, Latvia, areims, aldisr@tkb.lv 2.Oleg Fedorkin, Russia (Moscow), fedorkin, fedorkin@libro.genebee.msu.su 3.Eugeny Bobkov, Russia (Moscow), bobkove, e.bobkov@globalone.ru 4.Alexander Mikhailov, Russia (Moscow), almi+, almi@cs.isa.ac.ru Selection tournaments 1.Sergey Artemyev, Russia (Ulyanovsk), arts, ocb@uaz.ru 2.Zhang Jinyu, China, freefish, freefishes@yahoo.com 3.Leonid Gluhovsky, Israel, leonid, gleonid@actcom.co.il 4.Sergei M. Sitnik, Russia (Voronezh), sergei, sms@sitnik.vrn.ru 5.Carlo Tibaldi, Italy, tibia, Carlo.Tibaldi@infostrada.it 6.Vladimir Nazarov, Ukraine, vnazarov, imel@sovamua.com 7.Ants Soosorv, Estonia, asoosorv, asoosyrv@hotmail.com 8.Martin Kusak, Chekhia, mkusak, mkusak@email.cz 9.Bjorn Wallgren, Sweden, bjornw, bjorn.wallg@harnosand.mail.telia.com 10.Pavel Voznjuk, Estonia, pavlik, Pavel.Voznjuk@mail.ee 11.Sergey V. Filippov, Russia (Moscow), filippov, S.Fil@g23.relcom.ru, fil@td.vessolink.ru 12.Alexander Nosovsky, Russia (Moscow), nosovs, stigma.ltd@g23.relcom.ru 13.Igor Sinyov, Russia (Moscow), sinyovi, rensini@yahoo.com 14.Norihiko Kawamura, Japan, norihiko, nkawamur@hkf.mew.co.jp 15.Aleksey Kobzev, Armenia, kai, Aleksey@kai.r.am 16.Keisuke Yamamoto, Japan, itty, ymmt@kcn.ne.jp 17.Teiji Takagawa, Japan, takagawa, takagawa@nyc.odn.ne.jp 18.Kazuto Hasegawa, Japan, uo9man, uo9man@mve.biglobe.ne.jp 19.Vitaly Lunkin, Russia (Moscow), lunkin, vital@cyberax.ru 20.Katrin Birk, Estonia, katrin, tsiburr@hotmail.com 21.Tunnet Taimla, Estonia, tunnet, Tunnet.Taimla@mail.ee 22.Viktor Golosov, Russia (Moscow), golosov, vant@orc.ru 23.Norio Nishizono, Japan, saien, saien@nk.rim.or.jp 24.Vladimir Dvoeglazov, Russia, dvoeglazov, dvoeglazov@mail.ru 25.Ming Yeh Li, Taiwan, MYLi, chaos@public.dzptt.hi.cn 26.Vladimir Filinov, Russia (S.Petersburg), VFilinov, VFilinov@unila With best wishes Oleg Fedorkin -------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 01:40:01 +0100 Renju Newsletter No 104 - 1999 -------------------------------------------------- Moscow Final finished. Igor Sinyov have 10 points and win Moscow Championship Pavel Makarov have 9.5 points and was N2 Smirnov 8.5 points was N3 and lost his game against Sinyov in last round Tarannikov 8 points Fedorkin 7.5 A. Zabrodin 6.5 Nikonov 5,5 Nosovsky 5 Sirategyan 4.5 Golosov 3.5 points Filippov 3.5 points Shubin 3 points Ogorodov 3 points Alexander Nosovsky ------------------------------------ For some time the Web site of Goeran Holgersson did not work. Now his new URL-address is http://w1.367.telia.com/~u36704573/ ------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 22:53:52 +0100 Renju Newsletter No 103 - 1999 ------------------------------------------------- Here are results of Estonian qualification to Baltic High League. 7 rounds in Swiss system: 1. Margus Tuvikene 6 2. Tunnet Taimla 6 3. Pavel Voznyuk 5 4. Maris Tuvikene 4 5. Kadi Milva 4 5. Johann Lents 4 7. Sten Aager 4 8. Katrin Birk 3 9. Rasmus Kask 3 10. Kristjan Evart 3 11. Helen Milva 3 12. Timo Ilu 2 13. Kaarel Peetersoo 2 3 best players got right to play in Baltic High League Estonian Cup ended. In second semifinal Soosyrv won Kolk 3-1 Final between Margus Tuvikene and Ants Soosyrv was hard, but Ants won 3½ - ½. The First game Margus put D3, Ants choose white and got little advantage, but Margus played well and game ended draw. Second game was keygame. Ants put D8, but Margus left to D6(!). Ants choose bad plan and couldnt win. Then came Margus' girlfriend Eve Harju and Margus lost attention... The third game was quick, Margus put I8, Ants choose black and won easily. In the forth game Ants put D3 and got advantage as black, but his attack was to direct and Margus had good position over the board. But Ants played actively, Margus couldnt win and finally made big mistake. Friendly, Ants -------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 23:23:40 +0100 Renju Newsletter No 102 - 1998 -------------------------------------------------- It seems now that my mailserver works again so you can send letters to my ordinary e-mail address: tommy.maltell@lemes.se -------------------------------- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Information about WCh via e-mail xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Please send your application to Oleg Fedorkin, fedorkin@libro.genebee.msu.su till 30, December, 1999 if you wanted to take part in next World Championship via e-mail. The application should contain your name, country, registered userid at PbEM server. With best wishes Oleg Fedorkin List of participants of Renju World Championship tournaments - 2000 Final tournament 1.Aldis Reims, Latvia, areims, aldisr@tkb.lv 2.Oleg Fedorkin, Russia (Moscow), fedorkin, fedorkin@libro.genebee.msu.su 3.Eugeny Bobkov, Russia (Moscow), bobkove, e.bobkov@globalone.ru 4.Alexander Mikhailov, Russia (Moscow), almi+, almi@cs.isa.ac.ru5. Selection tournaments 1.Sergey Artemyev, Russia (Ulyanovsk), arts, ocb@uaz.ru 2.Zhang Jinyu, China, freefish, freefishes@yahoo.com 3.Leonid Gluhovsky, Israel, leonid, gleonid@actcom.co.il 4.Sergei M. Sitnik, Russia (Voronezh), sergei, sms@sitnik.vrn.ru 5.Carlo Tibaldi, Italy, tibia, Carlo.Tibaldi@infostrada.it 6.Vladimir Nazarov, Ukraine, vnazarov, imel@sovamua.com 7.Ants Soosorv, Estonia, asoosorv, asoosyrv@hotmail.com 8.Martin Kusak, Chekhia, mkusak, mkusak@email.cz 9.Bjorn Wallgren, Sweden, bjornw, bjorn.wallg@harnosand.mail.telia.com 10.Pavel Voznjuk, Estonia, pavlik, Pavel.Voznjuk@mail.ee 11.Sergey V. Filippov, Russia (Moscow), filippov, S.Fil@g23.relcom.ru, fil@td.vessolink.ru 12.Alexander Nosovsky, Russia (Moscow), nosovs, stigma.ltd@g23.relcom.ru 13.Igor Sinyov, Russia (Moscow), sinyovi, rensini@yahoo.com 14.Norihiko Kawamura, Japan, norihiko, nkawamur@hkf.mew.co.jp 15.Aleksey Kobzev, Armenia, kai, Aleksey@kai.r.am 16.Keisuke Yamamoto, Japan, itty, ymmt@kcn.ne.jp 17.Teiji Takagawa, Japan, takagawa, takagawa@nyc.odn.ne.jp 18.Kazuto Hasegawa, Japan, uo9man, uo9man@mve.biglobe.ne.jp 19.Vitaly Lunkin, Russia (Moscow), lunkin, vital@cyberax.ru ------------------------------------------------------------ In next weakend Moscow Final will finished. 13 players are playing here. Igor Sinyov have 8 points and 2 games left Tarannikov have 7 points and 2 games left Smirnov 6.5 points and 3 games left Makarov 6.5 points and 3 games left Fedorkin 6 points and 3 games left A. Zabrodin 5.5 points and 2 games left Nikonov 4 points and 3 games left Nosovsky 3.5 points and 4 games left Sirategyan 3.5 points and 2 games left Golosov 3.5 points all games are played Ogorodov (12 years old boy) 3 points and 3 games left (he won against Sinyov !) Shubin 2.5 points and 3 games left Filippov 1.5 points and 4 games left Alexander Nosovsky -------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 02:35:27 +0100 Renju Newsletter No 101 - 1999 -------------------------------------------------- My Internet supplier for the moment has some problems with the mail server. It is maybe not possible to send to my ordinary address just now and if you have sent me a letter the latest 24 hours the letter has probably disappearad and I have not received it. For some days till I will tell you, please, send your letters to me to another e-mail address: tommy.maltell@pb.edu.jonkoping.se ------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 00:38:47 +0100 Renju Newsletter No 100 - 1999 ------------------------------------------------- Rickard Johannesson now has got his old mail-address again. It is rickard.j@telia.com Rickard also has made a test with 20 questions about knowledge about renju history and renju competitions. All the answers you can find on the RIF Web site. You can download the test if you choose the following URL-address: http://www.renju.nu/test/renju.zip ------------------------- I have very little time just now so I have not had time to put the latest presentations that I have received on a webpage. also I have not had time to take away from the subscribers list those who have never sent me any answer at all. I must do this very carefully and it will probably take some time to do it. ----------------------------------- Date sent: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 01:18:26 +0100 Last Renju Newsletter (No 99 - 1999) ------------------------------------ THIS IS THE LAST RENJU NEWSLETTER FOR SEVERAL PLAYERS DO NOT MISS TO READ INFO ABOUT THIS BELOW ----------------------------------- Nakamura won 2-d Game of Meijin Match against Kawamura. You can download rtf Word ziped file from my WWW-page. Best Regards Alexander Nosovsky The URL-address is: http://194.87.49.195/Renju/nosovsky/ ------------------------------- Dear Tommy, So far I got not a lot of applications. As usually, it goes very slow. Could I ask you to inform again in Renju Newsletters about sending to me the applications? With best wishes Oleg Fedorkin Dear friends, please send your applications to Oleg Fedorkin (fedorkin@libro.genebee.msu.su) till 30, December if you wanted to take part in next year Renju World Championship via e-mail. Application should contain the name of participant, country, registered userid on PbEM which will be used for play in tournament. List of participants of Renju World Championship tournaments - 2000 Final tournament 1.Aldis Reims, Latvia, areims, aldisr@tkb.lv 2.Oleg Fedorkin, Russia (Moscow), fedorkin, fedorkin@libro.genebee.msu.su Selection tournaments 1.Sergey Artemyev, Russia (Ulyanovsk), arts, ocb@uaz.ru 2.Zhang Jinyu, China, freefish, freefishes@yahoo.com 3.Leonid Gluhovsky, Israel, leonid, gleonid@actcom.co.il 4.Sergei M. Sitnik, Russia (Voronezh), sergei, sms@sitnik.vrn.ru 5.Carlo Tibaldi, Italy, tibia, Carlo.Tibaldi@infostrada.it 6.Vladimir Nazarov, Ukraine, vnazarov, imel@sovamua.com 7.Ants Soosorv, Estonia, asoosorv, asoosyrv@hotmail.com 8.Martin Kusak, Chekhia, mkusak, mkusak@email.cz 9.Bjorn Wallgren, Sweden, bjornw, bjorn.wallg@harnosand.mail.telia.com 10.Pavel Voznjuk, Estonia, pavlik, Pavel.Voznjuk@mail.ee 11.Sergey V. Filippov, Russia (Moscow), filippov, S.Fil@g23.relcom.ru, fil@td.vessolink.ru -------------------------------------------- LAST RENJU NEWSLETTER FOR SEVERAL PLAYERS For some subscribers this maybe is the last Renju Newsletter. In several newsletters I have asked you to send me some reply to my request for your presentation. I am very glad to have you as a subscriber and I very much want to spread renju news all over the world. However, he number of subscribers now are about 148 and it is sometimes difficult to send the letter to everybody. Then I do not want to send to those who never are reading the letter. I like other persons sometimes have asked to be a subscriber on a newsletters which is seldom or never read. Therefore now it is your last chance. I also receive now and then letters regarding some players that the letters cannot reach the address because of different reasons and maybe the reason is that the player no longer has the e-mail address to which I am sending Renju Newsletters. These subscriber-addresses I sometimes have to remove from the list. From the players mentioned below I have not recognized any answer at all. Maybe you have sent me a reply and your letter never reached. Please, send it again. If you are one of the persons mentioned below and if you want to go on as a subscriber, please, give me some reply. You do not have to send me your presentation but you have to answer so that I know that you want to go on as a subscriber and so that I know that you really receives the newsletter. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do you want to go on as a subscriber. Yes or No. The reason why I have not sent my presentation is a) I want to write a presentation very carefully and I have not yet had time to do it. As soon as I get time I will send it. Yes or No b) In my opionion I am not a well-known player and therefore no one should be interested to read about me and I will not send any presentation. Yes or No ------------------------------------ Please, check first if you already are presented on the following page. If you are - then I have received your reply. http://www.renju.nu/players/ But I have received answers also from other players. Some presentations that I have received recently I have not had time to put on the webb yet. The following players has sent me no answer as I can remember. If you ar on the page on Internet mentioned above your name on the list below is a mistake from me ( I have very short time to write this letter very carefully). ------------------------------------------------ "Aleksey Kobzev, Armenia" "Truc Giang Nguyen, Australia" "Tom Wang,Australia" "Truc Giang Nguyen,Australia" "Werner Weingraber, Austria" "Eldar Dzaynukov,Azerbaijan" "Walentin Radkov, Bulgaria" "Chung Hsien-Chi, Chinese Taipei, C" "Echo Shi, Chinese Taipei" "Deng-Jing Hui, China" "Li-Bei Feng, China" "Na Wei, China, C" "Wong Yu Leong, China" "Yin Tao, China" "Zhoug Zhliup, China" "Daniel Ramos, Colombia, C" "Robert Samal, Czech Republic" "Toomas Aasmae, Estonia" "Katrin Birk, Estonia" "Johann Lents, Estonia" "Kaarel Peetersoo" "Lauri Toivonen, Finland" "Yoshimi Hayakawa, Japan" "Akihisa Iwata, Japan" "Akihiko Kashihara, Japan" "Tongxiang Zhang, Japan" "Artis Gaujens, Latvia" "Gatis Gurckis, Latvia" "Robert Idelson, Latvia" "Ernestas Gaidamauskas, Lithuania" "Alexandr Suslov, Moldova, C" "Michael Bevin ,New Zealand,C" "Vasilij Alibabaev, Russia" "Victor Barykin, Russia" "V Barykin" "Evgeniy Bobkov, Russia" "Sergey Bondarenko, Russia" "Sergey Filippov, Russia" "Victor Kaufman, Russia, C" "Dmitij Krasnonosov, Russia" "Serafima Krasnonosova,Russia" "Alexander Mikhailov,Russia" "Alexander Milevsky, Russia" "Igor Sinyov, Russia" "Dmitry Soloviev,Russia" "Oleg Stepanov, Russia" "Ekaterina Surovegina, Russia" "Sergey Tatarintsev, Russia" "V. Dvoeglazov, Russia" "Jan-Olov Andersson, Sweden" "Bengt Asplund, Sweden" "Morgan Bjoerkander, Sweden" "Mike Dufvenberg, Sweden" "Marcus Eriksson, Sweden" "Jonas Frid, Sweden" "Petter Gardström,Sweden" "Joachim Gaulitz, Sweden" "Hannes Hermansson, Sweden" "Anders Kleimark, Sweden" "Ingvar Sundling",Sweden" "Peder Svensson, Sweden" "Johan Vikerskog,Sweden" "Patrik Oehagen, Sweden" "Vladimir Kolesnik, Ukraine" "Vladimir Nazarov, Ukraine" "Nick Alexandrov, USA" "Sinisa N. Dragic, USA" "Scott P Justice, USA" "Sasha Lipsits,USA,C" "Jeff Mallett, USA" "Kevin Postlewaite, USA" "Richard Rognlie, USA" "Sigmund Rosenfel, USA" "Vladimir Talskiy, USA" "Tod Tinlin, USA" "Tom Wang, USA" "Brian Wei, USA" ------------------------------------------------ Date sent: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 00:10:31 +0100 Renju Newsletter No 98 - 1999 ------------------------------------------------ xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 6 December 1999 - Renju is 100 years old xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------ The name of RENJU has a beautiful sound. It is said that the origin of Renju was born in the middle of 18th century in Kyoto, Japan. But this game had various names at that time, for example "Kakugo", "Gomoku-narabe", "Itsutsu-ishi" and so on. So Goraku Takayama, who was the first permanent Japanese Meijin, named this game "Renju" and made information on Yorozu-Chouhou news paper 6 December 1899. --------------------------------------------------------------- Now we have 58 presentations on the URL-address: http://www.renju.nu/players/ Among the latest are Kawamura, Karlsson and Kozhin. If you have not sent it to me yet, please, send me your presentation before the 8th of December. --------------------------------------------------------------- The special info for Swedish players (in Swedish) will be found on the URL-address: http://www.renju.nu/swinfo2000.htm It is for example info about memberfee for next year and about tournaments in Sweden Jan-Aug 2000. ------------------------------------------------ Date sent: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 00:34:44 +0100 Renju Newsletter No 97 - 1999 ------------------------------------------------ Hej Tommy! In Nov.27 was in Helsinki, Finland renju and gomoku tournaments "Marraskuu 99" Tourneys were played in Italic system, so players could meet several times. Actually Stefan came to Helsinki just meet Irene, not to play, but Stefan's evil friend Ants(referee) added him to participants list. Here are results: Renju 1. Johann Lents EST 6 2. Stefan Karlsson SWE 5 3. Pavel Voznyuk EST 5 4. Marko Pellikka FIN 4,5 5. Lauri Toivonen FIN 3,5 6. Irene Einberg EST 3 7. Evelyn Tihkan EST 3 8. Helen Milva EST 2 9. Sten Aager EST 2 10. Aki Rehn FIN 1 Johann beat Stefan 2-0, but lost to Pavel 0-1. Pavel lost to Stefan and Irene Gomoku 1. Oskari Kauppila Fin 2. Olli Harden Fin 3. Lauri Horell Fin 4. Kadi Milva Est 5. Kaarel Peetersoo Est 6.-8 Pasi Pellikka Fin Niklas Lemstrom Fin Tuomo Pinola Fin 9-10 Rasmus Kask Est Teemu Karimaki Fin 11-14 Petri Maki Fin Jyrki Kyheroinen Fin Ats Malksoo Est Petri Wuorio Fin 15-16 Chrislyn Kikkas Est Tuomas KyheroinenFin 17-19 Eevert Kokkonen Fin Topi Loikkanen Fin Kristian PeltonenFin 20. Aleksi Pulkkanen Fin 21. Santeri SavirantaFin 22. Samuli Saviranta Fin Friendly, Ants ----------------------- Now 53 player´s presentations you can find on http://www.renju.nu/players/ but still I have not received presentations from several strong players. -------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 00:41:04 +0100 Renju Newsletter No 96 - 1999 -------------------------------------------------- the full version of Alexander Nosovsky´s very interesting big document (14 printed pages) from the 100 year celebration of renju and the great match Nakamura-Meritee now you can find on the same URL-address as for the first part reported in Renju Newsletter No 94 i.e. on the following URL address: http://www.renju.nu/merinaka/merinaka.htm The orginal rtf-file with the same full contents you can get from http://www.renju.nu/merinaka/match1.rtf ---------------------------- Now I have received 43 personal presentations but presentations from for example many famous good players I still miss. The presentations received so far you can find on the following URL- adress: http://www.renju.nu/players/index.html Also think that you can always update your presentation. If you have little time now, send me a short presentation and later when you have more time you can send me an updated version with more facts and views. ---------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 10:39:08 +0100 Renju Newsletter No 95 - 1999 -------------------------------------------------- Results from other tournaments during Renju 100 year celebration and Nakamura-Meritee match. Results of Kyoto Classified (Nov.14) Open No. Name R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 Pt. TB1 TB2 Rank 1 Miyagawa Junzo 2-0 17-1 3-0 16-0 9-0 1 15,5 16 2 Soosyrev Ants 1-1 4-1 8-1 10-1 3-1 5 I 3 Kubo Izumi 4-0 18-1 1-1 5-1 2-0 3 11,5 3 8 4 Kudomi Takahiro 3-1 2-0 5-0 6-1 15-0 2 15 11 5 Nosovsky Alexandre 6-1 8-0 4-1 3-0 11-0 2 12 12 6 Sugaya Masao 5-0 7-1 12-0 4-0 11-0 1 11 17 7 Miyoshi Takeo 8-0 6-0 14-0 18-1 17-= 1,5 8,5 15 8 Sagara Takashi 7-1 5-1 2-0 11-1 10-0 3 15,5 4 9 Kusajima Masato 10-0 11-0 17-1 13-= 1-1 2,5 12,5 9 10 Hasegawa Kazuto 9-1 12-1 15-1 2-0 8-1 4 17,5 II 11 Nara Hideki 12-0 9-1 18-1 8-0 5-1 3 12 6 12 Ishitani Shin'ichi 11-1 10-0 6-1 15-0 16-1 3 15 5 13 Tatsutomi Hiroyuki 14-1 15-0 16-0 9-= 6-1 2,5 11,5 10 14 Hieatashi Kikuma 13-0 16-0 7-1 17-0 18-0 1 10,5 18 15 Mitsumori Masao 16-1 13-1 10-0 12-1 4-1 4 14,5 III 16 Sunagawa Shoki 15-0 14-1 13-1 1-1 12-0 3 11,5 4,5 7 17 Koiso Shigemasa 18-= 1-0 9-0 14-1 7-= 2 7 13 18 Iwata Akihisa 17-= 3-0 11-0 7-0 14-1 1,5 10,5 14 Under 4-dan No. Name R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 Pt. TB1 Rank 1 Kakiuchi Keisuke 2-1 4-0 15-1 6-0 13-0 12-1 3 24 6 2 Omata Mitsuo 1-0 15-0 5-1 13-0 16-1 10-= 2,5 16,5 11 3 Kondo Takatoshi 4-0 5-1 7-1 8-1 6-0 9-0 3 21 9 4 Unoura Kazuhisa 3-1 1-1 6-0 11-1 12-1 8-1 5 II 5 Niwa Yoshiko 6-0 3-0 2-0 10-0 by-1 11-0 1 15 6 Okabe Hiroshi 5-1 8-1 4-1 1-1 3-1 13-1 6 I 7 Nagahira Matsutoshi 8-0 10-1 3-0 16-1 9-0 15-0 2 14 8 Yamamoto Toshihiro 7-1 6-0 9-1 3-0 11-1 4-0 3 23 7 9 Yamamoto Keisuke 10-1 12-0 8-0 14-1 7-1 3-1 4 14,5 4 10 Akahori Yoshiyuki 9-0 7-0 14-1 5-1 15-0 12-= 2,5 14 13 11 Hasegwa Shunzo 12-0 14-1 16-1 4-0 8-0 5-1 3 15,5 10 12 Hata Masayuki 11-1 9-1 13-0 15-1 4-0 1-0 3 22,5 8 13 Takagawa Teiji 14-1 16-0 12-1 2-1 1-1 6-0 4 18 III 14 Tanaka Yasuhiko 13-0 11-0 10-1 9-0 retire 0 16 15 Funamoto Tadashi 16-= 2-1 1-0 12-0 10-1 7-1 3,5 5 16 Kuramoto Hideharu 15-= 13-1 11-0 7-0 2-0 by-1 2,5 15 12 ------------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 00:09:13 +0100 Renju Newsletter No 94 - 1999 ------------------------------------------------------- Alexander Nosovsky has made very interesting big document from the 100 year celebration of renju and the great match Nakamura-Meritee. The first part of his comments you can find on the following URL- address: http://www.renju.nu/merinaka/merinaka.htm The orginal rtf-file with the same contents you can get from http://www.renju.nu/merinaka/match1.rtf 77 small and big images from the 100 year celbration of renju and from the match will be found on the following URL-address: http://www1.kcn.ne.jp/~ymmt/renju/event/index.html -------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 00:51:25 +0100 Renju Newsletter No 93 - 1999 -------------------------------------------------- On Alexander Nosovsky´s Web site http://194.87.49.195/Renju/nosovsky/ now you can download Alexander´s article about match of World Champion Ando Meritee against Meijin Segeru Nakamura So far you can only find Russian version but soon also English version will be available. ---------------------------------- Now I can upload files again on the RIF Web site so now you can find 31 presentations from players on the URL-address: http://www.renju.nu/players/ Among the new ones you can find Meritee, Nosovsky and Holgersson. However a lot of players still has not sent me any reply or their presentations. I will send them a special reminder before they will be removed from the list of subscribers on the 8th of December. ---------------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 18:50:34 +0100 Renju Newsletter No 92 - 1999 ---------------------------------------------------------- Comments to Nakamura-Meritee match Dear Tommy As nobody comments about Meritee-Nakamura match, I would like to comment a littel bit. I was there when game was finished at final day. So I tell you what they said. Question:"What impression did you have through the match?" Answer: Meritee:"It was the most difficult games of my life." Nakamura:"He was very strong. I must admire that he was the man who won the WC. I felt his black was dangerous." Question:"What was the key point of this match?" Answer: Meritee:"As I lost first game, I was very afraid the second game. If I lost the second game, I would be more dangerous situation. So I felt great relief when I won the second game." Nakamura:"It made me great disadvantage to lose the second game because of my mistake. Besides,I am very sorry his D3 tactics(9th move of 3rd and 6th game) was never beaten." I agree their comments. I am sure the second game was key point of this match. After 4th game, both players seemed tired. I think 5th game would be great chance to win for Meritee, and 6th game would be great chance to win for Nakamura. Anyway, all games showed us the most intelligent. They made us fascinated. The only regrettable thing was that we couldn't see Nakamura's black. We hope their match comes true again, but Nakamura doesn't say anything about next WC. Reported by Norihiko Kawamura ------------------------------------------------------- !!!!!Do not forget to send me your presentation!!!!! Of some reason I have problems to change the RIF pages for the moment. When this problem is solved you can read there the very interesting presentation by Ando Meritee. His answer to question no 4 you can read below: "4.Which is the best player you have met? No doubt about it - Shigeru Nakamura is so much stronger than any other player!! He is a genius!" ---------------------------------------- China report Dear Renju friends. I went to Beijing China from Nov.19th to 23th, to teach Renju and deepen the friendship between China and Japan. Japanese lineup is as the following. Hideki Nara 9-dan Takahiro Kudomi 5-dan Akihiko Kashihara 5-dan Yasuhiro Adachi 4-dan Toshihiko Kashihara 10-kyu Ryo Honda no-kyu (live in Shanghai) Mr. Na Wei, Mr. Deng Jinhui, and other many Chinese friends welcomed us, so we had very nice and significant days in Beijing. Nov.20th, we took part in mini tournament "Rogers Cup". This match was Chinese 5 men VS. Japanese 5 men by RIF rule. The time was 30 minutes + 5minutes 5 moves. And Japanese team won with difficulty as the following. Japan team (13points) Hideki Nara 9-dan 5-0 Takahiro Kudomi 5-dan 2-3 Akihiko Kashihara 5-dan 4-1 Yasuhiro Adachi 4-dan 1-4 Ryo Honda no-kyu 1-4 China team (12points) Liu Tong 5-dan 1-4 Cui Yue 4-dan 2-3 Yin Li Cheng 4-dan 4-1 Zhang Mao Long 3-dan 3-2 Xiao Di 1-kyu(17years old) 2-3 Sincerely, Hideki Nara 99.11.24 ---------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 18:56:39 +0100 Renju Newsletter No 91 - 1999 ---------------------------------------------------- Do not forget to send me your presentation - See Renju Newsletter No 88!!! -------------------------------------- I have some problems with RIF Web hotel again. You can see all pages but I cannot change the contents in a page for example the RIF newspage. Probably this problem will be solved quickly. ---------------------------------------- We had results of Russian First League Tournament in Rybinsk (15-20 November, 34 participants, Swiss 11 rounds). Nine players who got places in Russian High League are: 1. Alexander Klimashin (St.Petersburg) - 9,5 2. Pavel Makarov (Moscow) - 8 (Kt.76,4) 3. Konstantin Nikonov (Elektrostal) - 8 (71) 4. Yury Taiblin (Rybinsk) - 7,5 (71) 5. Sergey Smirnov (Moscow) - 7,5 (70,5) 6. Sergey Shevelyov (Nizhny Novgorod) - 7 7. Denis Nekrasov (Poduga) - 6,5 (69) 8. Oxana Sorokina (Poduga) - 6,5 (65,5/35,25) 9. Alexei Skuridin (Nizhny Novgorod) - 6,5 (65,5/34,5) ------------------------------------------------------------ Reserved players are: 10. Alexander Zabrodin (Moscow) - 6,5 (64) 11. Pavel Ses (St.Petersburg) - 6 (66,5) 12. Sergey Nogovitsin (Poduga) - 6 (65,6) 13. Anastasiya Leshukova (Rybinsk) - 6 (64) 14. Karen Sirategyan (Moscow) - 6 (57). Friendly, Konstantin ------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 19:21:04 +0100 Renju Newsletter No 90 - 1999 ------------------------------------------------- Do not forget to send me your presentation. Read more in Renju Newsletter No 88. ----------------------------------------------- Results from Estonian Cup. 1/4 finals: Margus Tuvikene - Pavel Voznyuk 3-1 Tunnet Taimla - Johann Lents 3-0 Marek Kolk - Evelyn Tihkan 3-0 Ants Soosyrv - Maris Tuvikene 3-0 Semifinal between Taimla and Tuvikene is also played. Tuvikene won 3-1 Next Saturday (Nov.26) will be open renju and gomoku tournaments in Helsinki. We start 11.00 and finish about 17.00. Friendly, Ants ------------------------------------------------ SWEDISH CUP 1999 - SEMIFINAL The second game in the semifinal between Stefan Karlsson and Joachim Gaulitz was played in Alby, Stockholm the 20th of November. Result: Stefan - Jocke 1-0 which means that Stefan won the match 2-0. Alby the 20th of November 1999 / Stefan Karlsson ---------------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 20:02:12 +0100 Renju Newsletter No 89 - 1999 ---------------------------------------------------------- The great renju match ended Meritee - Nakamura 3,5 - 2,5 Both game 5 and game 6 ended draw. Mr Nara has reported that he talked with Meritee and he said he is very happy, and he was very lucky to win. Just now it is in the middle of the night in Japan. Mr Nara also reported that I will soon receive more comments from both two players to be presented in Renju Newsletter sent to me from Mr. Nishizono and Mr.Hasegawa. ---------------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 22:39:41 +0100 Renju Newsletter No 88 -1999 ---------------------------------------------------------- Results from Nakamura-Meritee match Meijin VS WorldChampion 3 http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/people/arka01/9911/3.html Black: Ando Meritee winner White: Shigeru Nakamura Meijin VS WorldChampion 4 http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/people/arka01/9911/4.html Black: Ando Meritee White: Shigeru Nakamura Draw After 4 games: Meritee - Nakamura 2,5 - 1,5 The last two games you can follow tomorrow on the following pages: http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/people/arka01/9911/5.html http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/people/arka01/9911/6.html ------------------------------------------------------- Renjuplayers in the world - answers to personal questions On the following URL-address you can find presentations from 21 players: http://www.renju.nu/players/index.html This is not enough. A lot of players have not made their duty to answer my request in sent Fri, 10 Sep 1999 in Renju Newsletter No 71. Subscribers have asked me several times to give more information about players and clubs that they do not know about. Only each player/subscriber can help me to make this page with presentations interesting. Therefore I ask you again to help me to reply to some easy questions. I intend to publish the anwers on the above mentioned URL-address. Everybody that I have talked with thinks that to make such a presentation page is a very good idea but at the same time they say that they have not done it yet and the reason is not that they have not had time. It is very frustrating just only to ask again and a few of you will send the answer and most of you will do nothing. Therefore to wake you up I think I have to use some kind of action/reaction if you do not answer as you can read about below. I think this is your very little duty as a subscriber of Renju Newsletter. Everybody in the world should make his/her own contribution. So, please, try to answer these questions before the 7th of December. You do not need to make your presentation so formal. You do not necessarily need to answer every question. You can write in your own way. Usually you do not need to send your photo/image. RIF probably already has it. Then tell me to use your photo which is already on the RIF site. But if you know that your picture is not on the RIF site, I should be glad if you could send it. But a photo is not necessary - it is only nice to be able to see it. If you will send your presentation at the latest on the 7th of December you do not need to answer the question below: "Why have you not sent your presentation in time?" All other Renju Newsletter subscribers have to answer this questions at the latest on the 7th of December. If I hear nothing from you I have to take you away from the list of subscribers till you will send your answer. (The subscription fee is to send some answer.) Why have you not sent your presentation in time? You can choose between 3 replies. The reason why I have not sent my presentation is that: 1. Just I have so much to do in my life that I will never have 10 minutes left to write some words about myself. If anyone else wants to answer my questions/make my biography, please, let them do it. 2. I am not playing renju very much and I am not interesting for other players because I never play in national or international tournaments. 3. I have other reason not to send my presentation:............. If you want to send your answer before the 7th of December you can just try to answer these questions: 0.Your name, your nationality, your age, male or female. 1.When did you start to play renju and how did you learn it? How many years have you played renju? 2.Do you play in a club? In which clubs have you played? 3.Which are your best results in national and international tournaments (Usual tournaments and e-mail tournaments). Which is your international rating for the moment? 4.Which is the best player you have met? 5.Can you explain why you enjoy renju? 6.Which is your plans for the future as a player? 7.Is your image is already on the RIF site and we should use it or do you attach another image? 8.Have you anything else interesting to tell that you think that I should have asked for? If you are one of the leaders in your club our in your country, please, answer also these questions: a.Tell something about your current club. How many players, when do you train? and so on. b.If you are the only player in your country or connection man of your country, please, tell a little about renju in your country. How many club do you have and in which cities? When is national tournaments? and so on. ----------------------------------------------------------------- The Swedish magazine Fem i Rad No 2 1999 now can be found on the RIF site i.e.from the following URL-address: http://www.renju.nu/femirad.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------ Swedish Championship in Five-In-a-Row SM i Ryskt Luffarschack 1999 13-14 November RESULTS after 9 rounds Points Quality SB 1. Tomas Hagenfors Kumla 7.5 49.0 42.00 2. Goeran Holgersson Joenkoeping 7.0 50.5 40.00 3. Hannes Hermansson Hoegsjoe 7.0 50.0 40.00 4. Marcus Eriksson Hoegsjoe 7.0 48.5 39.50 5. Linus Hermansson Hoegsjoe 7.0 46.0 36.00 6. Anders Bertilsson Hoegsjoe 6.0 48.5 31.50 7. Sven-Aake Pettersson Hoegsjoe 6.0 41.0 26.00 8. Martin Carlsson Joenkoeping 5.5 48.5 28.00 9. Christofher Widman Arjeplog 5.5 43.5 26.25 10. Stig Qvarfort Hjo 5.5 43.0 22.75 11. Gunnar Andersson Hoegsjoe 5.5 42.5 24.75 12. Peter Widman Arjeplog 5.5 41.0 21.75 13. Erik Lissel Kumla 5.0 39.5 19.50 14. Linnéa Widman Arjeplog 5.0 38.0 15.50 15. Linus Andersson Hoegsjoe 4.5 42.5 19.50 16. Marie Lestander Arjeplog 4.5 42.5 18.50 17. Eric Hansson Kaerna 4.5 41.0 19.25 18. Kristoffer Fjellstroe Arjeplog 4.5 39.5 16.25 19. Gabriel Hagenfors Kumla 4.5 39.0 17.25 20. Lars Hellander Arjeplog 4.5 37.5 16.75 21. Andreas Johansson Kumla 4.5 35.5 13.75 22. Carl Hermansson Hoegsjoe 4.5 35.0 16.75 23. Kristoffer Jaesperi Hoegsjoe 4.5 34.5 15.50 24. Robin Edrenius Hoegsjoe 4.5 34.0 13.25 25. Mikael Borén Kumla 4.0 38.5 16.00 26. Sofie Karlsson Hoegsjoe 4.0 35.5 13.00 27. Roland Hansson Kaerna 3.5 38.5 12.25 28. Simon Borén Kumla 3.5 33.5 11.75 29. Sandra Fjellstroem Arjeplog 3.5 33.0 11.00 30. Gustav Skoogh Hoegsjoe 3.5 32.5 11.00 31. Oskar Karlsson Hoegsjoe 3.5 32.0 10.75 32. Karolina Eliasson Hoegsjoe 3.5 31.5 7.75 33. Cajsa-Tora Hermansso Hoegsjoe 3.5 31.0 7.75 34. Albin Hermansson Hoegsjoe 3.5 30.5 10.00 35. Jakob Marijanovic Hoegsjoe 3.5 29.0 7.75 36. Viktor Karlsson Hoegsjoe 3.5 27.0 8.25 37. Martin Hermansson Kumla 2.5 35.0 5.75 38. Jonathan Jaesperi Hoegsjoe 2.5 27.5 3.75 39. Viktor Skoogh Hoegsjoe 2.0 30.0 4.00 40. Madelene Eliasson Hoegsjoe 0.0 28.5 0.00 ----------------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 13:33:24 +0100 Renju Newsletter No 87 - 1999 ----------------------------------------------------------- Now the RIF Web site: http://www.renju.nu/ works again. ----------------------------------------- Game 1 and 2 in Nakamura-Meritee match: 1.Meijin VS WorldChampion 1 Black: Ando Meritee White: Shigeru Nakamura winner http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/people/arka01/9911/1.html 2.Meijin VS WorldChampion 2 Black: Ando Meritee winner White: Shigeru Nakamura http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/people/arka01/9911/2.html -------------------------------------------------------- SWEDISH CUP 1999 - SEMIFINALS Stefan Karlsson - Joachim Gaulitz Ingvar Sundling - Hannes Hermansson The first game in the semifinals was played in Alby, Stockholm the 11th of November: Stefan - Jocke 1-0 Alby the 13th of November 1999 / Stefan Karlsson --------------------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 01:09:33 +0100 Renju Newsletter No 86 - 1999 - Great match - Apply now ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Do not forget the Nakamura-Meritee match - Read more below. 2. Dear friends, please send your applications to Oleg Fedorkin (fedorkin@libro.genebee.msu.su) till 30, December if you wanted to take part in next year Renju World Championship via e-mail - Read more below. ------------------------------------------------------------ I am sorry but the RIF Web site still does not work in spite of the fact that it was announced from the Web hotel that it should work from Thirsday the 11th of November 1999. ------------------------------------------------------------ Do not forget the great match between the two strongest renjuplayers in the world Nakamura-Meritee which will be played with 6 games on Sunday 14th of November - Tuesday 16th of November. You can follow the games via Internet. The first page for the match is: http://www.nk.rim.or.jp/~saien/RenjuSha/name_100.html The first game you can follow on the following page: http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/people/arka01/9911/1.html The second game you can follow on the following page: http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/people/arka01/9911/2.html and so on. RIF Correspondence Commission discussed several questions concerning the correspondence play and decided: 1.PbEM server will be the server of next correspondence renju World Championship. 2.RIF Correspondence Commission will organize the special sub-commission in order to work on the improvement of old possibilities, to investigate new ones and may be to organize during next year test tournaments in the RIF tournament format (time and move controls etc). 3.The order of replacing of free places in RIF correspondence WCh: the free place should be replaced by the player who got the place lower in the same tournaments (now for final in the case of rejection of player who got the right to play via semi-final this place will get number 2 (and so on) from the same semi-final, in the case of rejection of player who got the right to play in the final because his succesful play in the previous final (places 1-6) this place will get number 7 (and so on) from the previous final), and if there would be no more candidates, the free places will get the players with the highest international rating. Adopted by RIF Correspondence Commission proposal "4.The participant of RIF tournament when applyed will inform about his real name, country and will promiss not to use other userids for play in the RIF tournaments and not to allow to use his own userid by other players (one player - one userid, one userid - one player)" got conditional (temporary) veto from Russian Renju Federation and so is rejected now. The discussion concerning the rules which are limited the participation of “fictive” players in RIF Correspondence tournaments is continuing now in RIF Correspondence Commission. Dear friends, please send your applications to Oleg Fedorkin (fedorkin@libro.genebee.msu.su) till 30, December if you wanted to take part in next year Renju World Championship via e-mail. Application should contain the name of participant, country, registered userid on PbEM which will be used for play in tournament. RIF Correspondence Commission is going to discuss some changes in the structure of RIF correspondence tournaments, and probably in the case of quarter-finals adding the advantage will be got by players with highest international ratings and those players who got the places higher in previous semi-finals – others will start from quarter-finals. With best wishes Oleg Fedorkin ------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 07:44:08 +0100 Renju Newsletter No 85 - 1999 ------------------------------------------------- For the moment you cannot reach the RIF Web site because the Web Hotel has physically moved and after that some problems has occured. Hopefully the problems will be solved soon. I have put the new issue of the Swedish Magazine (In Swedish) Fem i Rad No 2 1999 on the following temporary address: http://home.swipnet.se/maltell/fir992/ ------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 22:12:46 +0100 Renju Newsletter No 84 - 1999 ------------------------------------------------- Final results from Swedish Team Championship 1999 This is the correct results from the tournament. Partip. Matchp. 1. STOCKHOLM RK 1 26 10 2. HOEGSJOE LK 19,5 5 3. KFUM JOENKOEPING 1 18,5 6 4. TALLINN 1 18 7 5. STOCKHOLM RK 2 17 6 TALLINN 2 17 6 7. UPPSALA RK 17 5 8. KFUM JOENKOEPING 2 16 6,5 9. ARJEPLOG ROLF 1 11,5 3 10. ARJEPLOG ROLF 2 4,5 0,5 Best results: Anders Henningsson Stockholm 1 10 of 11 Joachim Gaulitz Stockholm 1 10 of 11 Ants Soosorv Tallinn 2 9 of 11 Ingvar Sundling Stockholm 2 8 of 11 Petter Gardstroem Uppsala 8 of 11 ------------------------------------------------ Date sent: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 22:57:12 +0100 Renju Newsletter No 83 - 1999 ------------------------------------------------ The Swedish Team Championship was played last weekend. So far I have not received any report from the organizers. However , I have some short information while we are waiting for a larger report. 1. Stockholm I (Stefan Karlsson, Anders Henningsson, Joachim Gaulitz) 2. Hoegsjoe 3. Joenkoping I 4. Tallinn II 5. Tallinn II 6. Stockholm II 7. Uppsala 8. Jönköping II 9. Arjeplog I 10 Arjeplog II ------------------------------------------------ Date sent: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 17:05:19 +0100 Renju Newsletter No 82 - 1999 ------------------------------------------------- Results of a Quarterfinal step of the 14th St.Petersburg Cup tournament. Vladimir Sushkov - Vitaly Yegorov - 2.5:0.5 Kirill Moiseev - Viktor Aleksandrov - 2:2 (short time games 3:0!) Aleksandr Klimashin - Pavel Ses - 3:0 Pavel Salnikov - Vladimir Filinov - 3:0 Semifinal pairs: Vladimir Sushkov - Kirill Moiseev Aleksandr Klimashin - Pavel Salnikov The Semifinal games are to be played till 11.12.1999. Sincerely Yours, Pavel Salnikov ------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 16:45:36 +0100 Renju Newsletter No 81 -1999 ------------------------------------------------- Dear Renju Friends You can download RTF - Word file with Diagram of first Game of Meijin Match Kawamura-Nakamura at Nosovsky-WWW Page: http://194.87.49.195/Renju/nosovsky/ It is a zipped file. Enjoi ! ------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 15:59:47 +0100 Renju Newsletter No 80 - 1999 ------------------------------------------------- Dear Friends! ******************************************* 1st game was DRAW!! 37th Meijinsen Final 1st game Black:Kawamura 0.5- White:Nakamura(TB) 0.5 Opneing:D8 ******************************************* Yesterday 37th Meijinsen Final was held in Kyoto. The result was draw. Nakamura was tentative black and selected D8. Kawamura chose black and played ordinary moves. Kawamura showed new move at 25. However, Nakamura proteced black with the strongest move. Nakamura had a little advantage in the middle of the game. Nakamura attacked hard against black, but black surely had the winnig position because Nakamura ignored black move!! Kawamura missed attacking because of lack of time, and steadily protected white's attacks after that. As a result Nakamura suggested draw at 99 move. Norihiko Kawamura ------------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 23:29:17 +0200 Subject: Renju Newsletter No 79 - 1999 -------------------------------------------------------- We made Nihon-Renju-Sha official HomePage TEST-Version. This home page is JAPANESE only. But some English words are included. This time , we must make up HP because of Nakamura-Meritee game. You can see the games in this HP.

http://www.nk.rim.or.jp/~saien/RenjuSha/index.html Click [Meijin VS WorldChampion] and [***-game] only diaglams, you can find at this address http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/people/arka01/9911/1.html 1.html means 1st game, so 2nd and 3rd game is 2.html 3.html ..... so on. If there are any trouble , please tell me. Norio Nisizono from JAPAN saien@nk.rim.or.jp -------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 23:07:21 +0200 Renju Newsletter No 78 - 1999 -------------------------------------------------- Quarterfinals of the Swedish Cup 1999 The Quarterfinals of the Swedish Cup 1999 were held in Alby, Stockholm, the 16-17th of October. Results: Stefan Karlsson - Jan Palmgren 2-0 Joachim Gaulitz - Linus Hermansson 2-1 Bengt Asplund - Hannes Hermansson 1-2 Ingvar Sundling - Anders Bertilsson 2-0 The semifinals will be played in November: Stefan Karlsson - Joachim Gaulitz Hannes Hermansson - Ingvar Sundling Stefan -------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 23:58:27 +0200 Renju Newsletter No 77 - 1999 -------------------------------------------------- Wettercupen-99 Results: Place 1. Stefan Karlsson 2. Rickard Johannesson 3. Goran Holgersson 4. Martin Carlsson 5. Peter Jonsson 6. Olga Skouridina-Jonsson 7. Hokan Moller 8. Bengt Nyberg 9. Irene Einberg 10. Martin Karlsson 11. Jan Paulander This was the sixth time Wettercupen was played. By tradition no player has won it twice, but last year winner Rickard Johannesson had a good chance because many strong players didn't show up this year. Rickard reached the final and had a really good chance to become the first player with two wins. However, his opponent Stefan Karlsson (finalist last year) fought really well and in the end he won. KFUM Renju, Jonkoping hopes for a bigger tournament next year. So, remember - October, 2000! Peter Jonsson ------------------------------- Mr. Kozhin from Russia will go to USA in October ! He will work in Mississippi , between Florida and Texas. Hope this case is very good for US Renju Federation creating. Best Regards Alexander Nosovsky --------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 00:09:45 +0200 Renju Newsletter No 76 - 1999 -------------------------------------------------- Dear friends I have my WWW-page. Please visit it , I hope you will find something interesting from it. http://194.87.49.195/Renju/nosovsky/ Best Regards Alexander Nosovsky -------------------------------------- Among a lot of things you will find on Alexander´s place: a zipped Word-file with Renju For Beginners 1999 version a zipped Word-file with Click of STONES Zvon Kamney - Part I in English ----------------- Alexander has also found: Hungerian Renju Page http://www.tvnet.hu/mtte/renju.html ------------------------------------------------ Date sent: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 07:29:06 +0100 Renju Newsletter No 75 - 1999 ------------------------------------------------ *100th Anniversary of name of "RENJU" Japanese Renju Federation Supecial Match Shigeru Nakamura(Meijin/JPN) vs Ando Meritee(World Champion/EST) The name of RENJU has beautiful sound. It is said that the origin of RENJU was born in the middle of 18th century in Kyoto. But this game had various names at that time, for example "KAKUGO", "GOMOKU-NARABE", "ITSUTSU-ISHI" and so on. So Goraku Takayama, who was the first Meijin, named this game "RENJU" and made information on Yorozu-Chouhou news paper 6 December 1899. Now, we have the anniversary year of RENJU. So we make an arrangement of supecial match. We hope that the match make all RENJU players have a lot of fun. [Shigeru Nakamura - Ando Meritee] The match have 6 games.The schedule is following. Nov 14: am10:00- Round 1 and 2 at Kyoto Tyushou-kigyo Kaikan Nov 15: am9:30- Round 3 and 4 at Kyoto Park Hotel Nov 16: am9:30- Round 5 and 6 at Kyoto Park Hotel [Observer] Yoshimi Hayakawa(President of Japan Renju Federation) Alexander Nosovsky(Vice President of RIF) Ants Soosyrv(President of Estonia Renju Federation) [Information] You will be able to watch all games on realtime at web site of JPF that we are making now. [Inquiry] If you have some question about this match, send your mail to following address. E-mail:hayaka32@aol.com friendly yours Yoshimi Hayakawa ----------------------------------------------- Date sent: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 01:45:19 +0200 Renju Newsletter No 74 - 1999 ---------------------------------- Results of Japanese Meijinsen Tournament (24-26 Sep) 1999. Points +/- RIF rating 1. Norihiko Kawamura * 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 8.0 (1) + 49 2735 2. Kazuto Hasegawa 0 * 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 8.0 (0) + 26 2682 3. Norio Nishizono 0 0 * 1 1 = 1 1 1 1 6.5 + 31 2586 4. Hideki Nara 0 0 0 * 1 1 1 1 1 1 6.0 + 21 2565 5. Yoshimi Hayakawa 1 0 0 0 * 1 0 0 1 1 4.0 - 24 2473 6. Hiroshi Matsuura 0 0 = 0 0 * = 1 1 1 4.0 + 29 2394 7. Taizan Isobe 0 0 0 0 1 = * = 1 1 4.0 + 14 2419 8. Takeo Miyoshi 0 0 0 0 1 0 = * 1 1 3.5 + 9 2384 9. Hiroshi Sakamoto 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 * 1 1.0 - 37 2244 10. Hisao Fujinami 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 * 0.0 -118 2296 Mr. Kawamura won this tournament. He got 8 poits, but Mr. Hasegawa got 8 points also. So they played final extra match, and Kawamura won. Mr.Kudomi and Mr. Ishitani will report the detail on the Reuju-Sekai. And Mr. Kawamura will report in the Renju-World. Please wait for these for pleasure. Final match, between Mr. Nakamura and Mr. Kawamura, will be start on 31th October. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The new RIF ratinglists you can find on the following URl-addresses: http://www.renju.nu/rating/ro990929.htm http://www.renju.nu/rating/rc990929.htm The page Renju and other related Games has been updated by Alexander Nosovsky. Now the page has 2 parts: Computers programs Links Part-1 - Maybe weak programs but many games from different countries. This is the old part. Computers programs Links Part-2 - Strong programs. This is the new updated part which also includes some info about Computer WC in Renju. The direct URL-address is: http://www.renju.nu/renlinks.htm ----------------------------------------- Letter from Tom Buhrman: Dear Tommy, I visited your website and noticed the link to ItsYourTurn.com. You might be interested to know that we have expanded our games, and we now offer pente and keryo- pente in addition to go-moku and 30 other board games and variations. We still have monthly tournaments, and our gaming commumity has grown to over 95,000 registered users. Let me know if you have any questions. Good luck with your site. Sincerely, Tom Tom Buhrman Websupport and Graphic Design tbuhrman@itsyourturn.com www.ItsYourTurn.com --------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 00:26:34 +0200 Renju Newsletter No 73 -1999 --------------------------------------------------- I miss a lot of answers required in Renju Newsletter No 71 (and 72) especially from many strong renju players. Only 14 players have sent me the answer to the questions. Please, reply as soon as possible. The 14 players that so far has answered you can find on the URL-address: http://www.renju.nu/players/index.html -------------------------------------------- I have made some changes to the first page of the RIF web site. http://www.renju.nu/index.html ------------------------------------------- Info about Renju WC via e-mail from Oleg Fedorkin This year e-mail tournaments were almost finished. Only one game (group C) is continueing yet, but the result of this game is not important for the place determination. Next year O.Fedorkin (RUS), S.Bondarenko (RUS), R.Kolpakov (RUS), A.Reims (LAT), Yu.Tarannikov (RUS), E.Bobkov (RUS), M.Kozhin (RUS), A.Mikhailov (RUS), M.Dufvenberg (SWE), K.Nikonov (RUS) will have right to play in the final tournament of 5th Renju WCh via e-mail. The referees of our tournaments B.Asplund and A.Nosovsky confirmed the final results in the tables below. Renju World Championships via e-mail: 1st (1996) I.A.Reims (LAT) II.L.Laibinis (LIT-FIN) III.I.Sinyev (RUS) 2nd (1997) I.Yu.Tarannikov (RUS) II.R.Kolpakov (RUS) III.A.Reims (LAT) 3rd (1998) I.O.Fedorkin (RUS) II.A.Reims (LAT) III.K.Hasegawa (JAP) 4th (1999) I.O.Fedorkin (RUS) II.S.Bondarenko (RUS) III.R.Kolpakov (RUS). With best wishes Oleg Fedorkin.Group A. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 MtPt Pts Place 1.O.Fedorkin(RUS) fedorkin xx 1= 11 1= =0 11 == == 11 11 7 13= I 2.A.Reims(LAT) areims =0 xx 11 01 =1 =1 =0 == 11 =0 5 10= 4 3.K.Hasegava(JAP) uo9man 00 00 xx 10 01 01 == 1= 00 =0 3 6 8 4.R.Kolpakov(RUS) kolpak =0 01 10 xx 00 =1 == 11 11 11 5= 11 III 5.Yu.Tarannikov(RUS) taran 1= 0= 01 11 xx 00 == 10 11 0= 4= 9= 5 6.V.Golosov(RUS) golosov 00 0= 01 0= 11 xx 00 11 11 =0 3= 8= 7 7.S.Bondarenko(RUS) troter == 1= == == == 11 xx 11 11 =1 7 13 II 8.S.Smirnov(RUS) smirnov == == =0 00 10 00 00 xx 00 01 2 4= 10 9.O.Klimachev(RUS) klimachev 00 00 11 00 00 00 00 11 xx 01 2= 5 9 10.E.Bobkov(RUS) bobkove 00 1= 1= 00 =1 1= 0= 01 01 xx 5 8= 6 Group B. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Pts Place 1.N.Kawamura(JAP) norihiko xx 00 11 00 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 10 17 4-5 2.M.Kozhin(RUS) jenaro 11 xx 01 11 11 1= 11 11 11 11 11 11 20= I 3.S.Filippov(RUS) filippov 00 01 xx =1 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 01 17= 2 4.B.Wallgren(SWE) bjornw 11 00 0= xx 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 10 17= 3 5.V.Egorov(RUS) evit 00 00 00 00 xx 00 11 11 01 00 11 00 7 9 6.Y.Madissoon(EST) ymadis 00 =0 00 00 11 xx 11 11 11 11 11 00 12= 6 7.M.Lalayan(ARM) lama 00 00 00 00 00 00 xx 11 00 00 10 00 3 10-11 8.T.Wang(CHI) tomwang 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 xx 00 00 00 00 0 12 9.V.Kolesnik(UKR) kvik 00 00 00 00 01 00 11 11 xx 11 11 00 9 7 10.R.Brown(USA) guzzle 00 00 00 00 11 00 11 11 00 xx 11 00 8 8 11.M.Dumanyan(ARM) dumh 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 11 00 00 xx 00 3 10-11 12.S.Krasnonosova(RUS) odetta 10 00 01 10 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 xx 17 4-5 Group C. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Pts Place 1.A.Soosorv(EST) asoosorv xx 0= 01 11 10 11 11 00 11 11 11 11 16= 3 2.A.Mikhailov(RUS) almi+ =1 xx 10 11 =1 11 11 11 1= 11 11 11 19= I 3.V.Barykin(RUS) vbarykin 01 10 xx 11 11 11 11 =0 11 11 11 11 18= 2 4.R.Johannesson(SWE) ratson 00 00 00 xx 01 11 00 00 00 11 00 00 5 9 5.S.Sitnik(RUS) sergei 10 0= 00 01 xx 11 11 01 11 11 11 11 15= 5 6.K.Birk(EST) katrin 00 00 00 00 00 xx 11 00 00 11 00 00 4 11 7.M.Minasyan(ARM) mima 00 00 00 11 00 00 xx 00 00 11 00 00 4 10 8.Zh.Jinyu(CHI) freefish 11 00 1= 11 01 11 11 xx 01 11 11 00 15= 4 9.I.Rinkis(LAT) ingus 00 =0 00 11 00 11 11 01 xx 11 11 0 11= 7 10.A.Stepanyan(ARM) star 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 xx 00 00 0 12 11.R.Samal(CHE) rsamal 00 00 00 11 00 11 11 00 00 11 xx 00 8 8 12.V.Alibabaev(RUS) alibaba 00 00 00 11 00 11 11 11 1 11 11 xx 13 6 Group D. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 Pts Place 1.A.Poghosyan(ARM) apogh xx 00 00 00 00 00 11 00 00 00 00 00 2 11 2.I.Sinyov(RUS) sinyovi 11 xx 10 10 01 11 11 11 11 10 11 01 17 3 3.A.Nosovsky(RUS) nosovs 11 10 xx 10 11 01 11 11 11 11 11 == 18 2 4.J.Gaulitz(SWE) joachim 11 10 10 xx 10 01 11 00 11 01 11 01 14 5 5.V.Lunkin(RUS) lunkin 11 01 00 10 xx 11 11 11 11 01 11 0= 15= 4 6.M.Kolk(EST) mkolk 11 00 01 01 00 xx 11 01 10 11 11 0= 12= 6 7.A.Karapetyan(ARM) kaar 00 00 00 00 00 00 xx 00 00 00 00 00 0 12 8.Zh.Tongxiang(JAP) s02 11 00 00 11 00 01 11 xx 11 0= 10 00 9= 8 9.E.Gaidamauskas(LIT) volk 11 00 00 00 00 10 11 00 xx 11 01 00 8 9 10.W.Huang(USA) stfan 11 10 00 01 01 00 11 =1 00 xx 11 00 10= 7 11.C.Tibaldi(ITA) tibia 11 00 00 00 00 00 11 10 10 00 xx 00 6 10 13.M.Dufvenberg(SWE) mikedu 11 01 == 01 =1 =1 11 11 11 11 11 xx 18 I Group E. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Pts Place 1.T.Takagawa(JAP) takagawa xx 00 =1 00 01 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 16= 4 2.K.Nikonov(RUS) vanalaud 11 xx 10 1= 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 20= I 3.P.Salnikov(RUS) psalnikov 0= 10 xx == 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 18= 3 4.D.Soloviev(RUS) dsol 11 =0 == xx 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 1= 19 2 5.J.Lents(EST) lents 01 00 00 00 xx 11 11 11 11 11 00 11 13 5 6.M.Manykyan(ARM) mamh 00 00 00 00 00 xx 00 00 00 00 00 00 0 12 7.M.Carlsson(SWE) muppin 00 00 00 00 00 11 xx 11 11 00 00 00 6 9 8.A.Kobzev(ARM) kai 00 00 00 00 00 11 00 xx 11 01 00 00 5 10 9.A.Lipsits(USA) alipsits 00 00 00 00 00 11 00 00 xx 00 00 00 2 11 10.G.Baggio(ITA) beppejb 00 00 00 00 00 11 11 01 11 xx 00 00 7 8 11.E.Tihkau(EST) etienne 00 00 00 00 11 11 11 11 11 11 xx 01 13 6 12.B.Asplund(SWE) basplund 00 00 00 =0 00 11 11 11 11 11 01 xx 11= 7 ------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 00:42:41 +0200 Renju Newsletter No 71 - 1999 ------------------------------------------------- On the Renju World Web site http://www.neti.ee/renju/ you can find Word-file with the latest Renju Newsletter (No 25-31)and for most of them also html-files. ----------------------------------------- After having published lists of results from different tournaments some new subscribers have asked me several times to give more information about players and clubs that they do not know about just like the question mentioned in Renju Newsletter No 60 - 1999. Now I ask all Renju Newsletter subscribers to help me to ask some easy questions. I intend to publish the anwers on a special Webpage so that all subscribers and players will be able to know a little more about other players. So, please, try to answer these questions quickly or within short. You can copy my letter and give your answer directly after my question. If you cannot answer some of the questions or if you cannot send a photo now , send me the answers that you are able to answer now and later you can send the rest. You are of course free to give comments anywhere. 0.Your name, your nationality, your age, male or female. 1.When did you start to play renju and how did you learn it? 2.Do you play in a club? In which clubs have you played? 3.Which are your best results in national and international tournaments Usual tournaments and e-mail tournaments). Which is your international rating for the moment? 4.Which is the best player you have met? 5.Can you explain why you enjoy renju? 6.Which is your plans for the future as a player? 7.Please, send me an image of you - if possible a jpg- or gif-file. 8.If you have anything else interesting to tell that you think that I should have asked for, please, do it as answer no 8. If you are one of the leaders in your club our in your country, please, answer also these questions: a.Tell something about your current club. How many players, when do you train? and so on. b.If you are the only player in your country or connection man of your country, please, tell a little about renju in your country. How many club do you have and in which cities? When is national tournaments? and so on. ------------------------------------------------ Date sent: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 23:30:59 +0200 Renju Newsletter No 70 - 1999 ------------------------------------------------ On the URL-address http://www.renju.nu/wc99/wc99.htm you can now find links to 10 more images from the WC days in Beijing, China. ------------------------------------ Results from Svealand Open Five-In-A-Row tournament played in Kumla, Sweden September 4th 1999. 1 Ants Sosoorv Estland 2 Hannes Hermansson Hogsjo 3 Martin Carlsson Jonkoping 4 Bengt Asplund Stockholm 5 Stefan Karlsson Stockholm 6 Anders Bertilsson Hogsjo 7 Tomas Hagenfors Kumla 8 Kiet Vu Hogsjo 9 Peter Jonsson Jonkoping 10 Marcus Eriksson Hogsjo 11 Marko Pellikka Finland 12 Erik Lissel Kumla 13 Gunnar Andersson Hogsjo 14 Bror Olausson Hogsjo 15 Helen Milva Estland 16 Linus Roos Kumla 17 Linus Hermansson Hogsjo 18 Toomas Puks Estland 19 Talis Pilags Hogsjo 20 Sad Niskanen Finland 21 Sten Aager Estland 22 Timo Ilu Estland 23 Kristjan Evart Estland 24 Petri Maki Estland 25 Radi Milva Estland 26 Andrus Rahni Estland 27 Gabriel Hagenfors Kumla 28 Kimmo Nykanen Finland 29 Mari Mols Estland 30 Kristoffer Jasperi Hogsjo 31 Martin Hermansson Kumla 32 Topi Loikkanen Finland 33 Sven-Åke Pettersson Hogsjo 34 Pasi Pelikka Finland 35 Oskari Kauppila Finland 36 Tobias Flood Kumla 37 Olli Harden Finland 38 Roope Utrailen Finland 39 Emma Kimilainen Finland 40 Petri Wuorio Finland 41 Andreas Johansson Kumla 42 Lauri Horelli Finland 43 Matilda Skoogh Hogsjo 44 Teemu Karimaki Finland 45 Tiina Willman Finland 46 Joakim Larsson Kumla 47 Max Backer Hogsjo 48 Elin Westin Hogsjo 49 Liselott Roos Kumla 50 Simon Borén Kumla --------------------------------------------

Nizhny Novgorod

From Dino Hsu I received this letter as a comment to the results mentioned in Renju Newsletter No 69 - 1999. People in Taiwan don't know much about Sever or Novgorod, we don't even know which country this is. Can anyone briefly introduce the country, the city, and the tournament, not just the result? Thanks in advance. I asked Olga Skuridina-Jonsson from Nizhny Novgorod and now living in Joenkoping married to Peter Jonsson (General secretary of RIF) to inform Dino Hsu. Probably a lot of other players will find this information interesting so I publish it in this Renju Newsletter. ------------------------------------------------ Dear Dino Hsu and all other people who want to know more about Nizhny Novgorod and the Championship of the "Sever" region! Nizhny Novgorod is the third largest city in Russia after Moscow and St.Petersburg. A river port situated at the confluence of the Volga and Oka Rivers, the city is some 400 kilometers east of Moscow, easily accessible by highway, train or air. It is the capital of the Nizhny Novgorod oblast. More about geography, history, politics and some pictures You can find on following sites: www.inforis.ru/n-nov/ www.lavalink.com.au/~irina/nn/nn.html www.unn.runnet.ru/nn/ Novgorod is a big Russian city also but it is not the same as Nizhny Novgorod. There are two different cities with great history. In the renju world Nizhny Novgorod is well known as a city with very strong renju club. Some players from Nizhny Novgorod club made quite good results in big international tournaments for the last time: Yelena Chizhkina took 4th place in the World Youth Championship in 1998 in Beijing (youngest girls group); Sergey Shevelyov took 2nd place in the World Youth Championship in 1998 in Beijing (youngest boys group), 4th place in the Europian Youth Championship (1999, Podyuga), 1st place in the Russian Youth Championship; Olga Skuridina took 6th place in the World Women Championship in Beijing; Alexey Skuridin, the chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod renju club, is the chairman of the RIF Referee Commission and the RIF Youth Commission, he is one of the most well known referee of renju tournaments (also international, like the 4th World Championship in Tallinn - Chief Referee, the 5th World Championship in St-Petersbourg - Chief Referee, the 1th World Youth Championship in Nizhny Novgorod - Chief Referee, all Europian Youth Championships - Chief Referee); Vladislav Kareyev, the Champion of Nizhny Novgorod for the presence, play only in Russian tournaments - he has no financial possibility to travel - but that people who read "Renju World" and "Renju Newsletters" can already notice that he win or as minimum take very good place in different renju competitions. Nizhny Novgorod is well known also by some international and open tournaments. The 1st World Youth Championship was held in Nizhny Novgorod. The following tournaments were held in Nizhny Novgorod many times: the 1st League of the Russian Championship, the Highest League of the Russian Championship (once), the Russian Women Championship, the Russian Youth Championship, the "Volga" tournament. Since 1994 the Nizhny Novgorod renju club celebrate it's Birthday by Nizhny Novgorod Open tournament. This tournament is counted in the International Rating List. Every year it take place in March (Friday-Sunday around 17th). Any renju player may take part, we ask to send applications for advance (for invitations for getting visa in time). The address is mih@gaz.ru - Alexey Skuridin The Nizhny Novgorod renju club's newspaper "5th stone" now is avaliable on Internet: www.homestead.com/olgas/5stone.html The "Sever" ("North") is one of the renju regions in Russia. Geographically it is situated on the North of the European part of the Russia. It include, for the presence, three strong renju clubs: in Nizhny Novgorod, in Rybinsk, in Podyuga and some not so strong clubs in other cities, towns, villages and not organized single players. The Championship of the "Sever" region in same time is a qualification tournament for the 1st League of the Russian Championship. If You would like to know more about Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod renju club and "Sever" region You can ask me or Alexey Skuridin: Alexey Skuridin - mih@gaz.ru Olga Skuridina-Jonsson - petejonsson@hotmail.com With best wishes, Olga ------------------------------------------------ Date sent: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 19:05:55 +0200 Renju Newsletter No 69 - 1999 ------------------------------------------------ The Championship of the «Sever» («North») region was held in Nizhny Novgorod 27th–29th of August. The 12 best are following: Place points Coeff. Coeff. Buch. Berg. 1 Kareyev V. N. Novgorod 6d + 9 46,5 46,5 2 Volkov S. Rybinsk 4d - 6,5 46 30 3 Shevelyov S. N. Novgorod 4d - 6 46 28 4 Skuridin A. N. Novgorod 6d 5,5 47 24,5 5 Reibandt V. Rybinsk 2d 3d 5 49,5 24,25 5 Leshukova A. Rybinsk 1d 2d 5 49,5 23,5 7 Karasyov M. N. Novgorod 4d - 5 46,5 20,75 8 Lonin A. N. Novgorod 4k + 5 43 19 9 Petrovsky D. N. Novgorod 4d - 4,5 47 19 10 Myasoyedov Y. Rybinsk 5k 4k 4,5 40 17,5 11 Ryabov A. Rybinsk 4k 3k 4,5 39,5 15,5 12 Chizhkina Y. N. Novgorod 2k - 4,5 36,5 15 ------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 18:45:07 +0200 Renju Newsletter No 68 - 1999 ------------------------------------------------- The Swedish five-in-a-row tournament Svealand Open will be played on September 4th 1999 in Kumla, Sweden. I have heard that maybe some players from Estonia and Russia also will take part in this tournament. More info including invitation to this tournament and map of the playing place you can find in Swedish language on the URL-address: http://www.renju.nu/svealandopen/svealandopen99.htm ------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 19:09:27 +0200 Renju Newsletter No 67 - 1999 ------------------------------------------------- Letter from "Tom & Vivian Buhrman" Free playsite for go-moku, pente, and more Dear Tommy, Please allow me to introduce ItsYourTurn.com, a free, turn-based games website which offers go-moku, pente, and several other board games. Why ItsYourTurn is a popular site to play games: - Users can play when they want and need only minutes a day to maintain several games - Users can play who they want and don't have to be logged on at the same time - 32 board games and variations, including chess, checkers, backgammon, and battleboats - 80,000 registered users and 450,000 games started - No java, no downloads Visit www.itsyourturn.com and consider adding us to your links list. Please contact me if you have any questions, and good luck with your website. Sincerely, Tom Buhrman tbuhrman@itsyourturn.com http://www.ItsYourTurn.com/ ------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 20:15:21 +0200 Renu Newsletter No 66 - 1999 ------------------------------------------------- On the following URL-address you can find the Swedish Magazine Fem i Rad No 1 - 1999. The magazine is written in Swedish. http://www.renju.nu/fir991/fir991.htm ------------------------------------------------ Date sent: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 16:18:24 +0200 Renju Newsletter No 65 -1999 ------------------------------------------------ New RIF International ratinglists after WC in China will be found on the following URL-addresses: http://www.renju.nu/rating/ro990806.htm http://www.renju.nu/rating/rc990806.htm ----------------------------------------------- From Bengt Asplund I have received some the tables from WC as text and with changes of ratings included: ----------------------------------------------- 6th Renju World Championship in China A-tournament ------------------------------------- PL. round 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Po Ber RIF rating +/- 1. Ando Meritee Estonia 10 1 6 1 2 1 5 1 11 1 7 1 9 = 8 0 12 1 3 1 4 1 9.5 +54 2749 2. Igor Sinyov Russia 6 1 5 = 1 0 11 1 7 1 9 0 8 1 12 1 3 1 4 0 10 = 7 34 +90 2543 3. Stefan Karlsson Sweden 7 = 9 1 8 0 12 1 5 1 4 1 10 = 6 1 2 0 1 0 11 1 7 33.25 +68 2560 4. Kazuto Hasegawa Japan 11 0 7 1 9 1 8 1 12 1 3 0 5 0 10 1 6 0 2 1 1 0 6 -72 2656 5. Ants Soosorv Estonia 8 1 2 = 12 1 1 0 3 0 11 0 4 1 7 0 10 1 9 1 6 1 5.5 27 +79 2483 6. Mikhail Kozhin Russia 2 0 1 0 11 0 7 = 9 1 8 1 12 1 3 0 4 1 10 1 5 0 5.5 25 -25 2559 7. Vladimir Sushkov Russia 3 = 4 0 10 = 6 = 2 0 1 0 11 1 5 1 9 0 8 1 12 = 5 + 4 2496 8. Yoshimi Hayakawa Japan 5 1 12 0 3 1 4 0 10 0 6 0 2 0 1 1 11 1 7 0 9 = 4.5 28.25 -28 2497 9. Zhang Jinyu China 12 = 3 0 4 0 10 0 6 0 2 1 1 = 11 1 7 1 5 0 8 = 4.5 24.5 -- 2367 10. Norio Nishizono Japan 1 0 11 1 7 = 9 1 8 1 12 0 3 = 4 0 5 0 6 0 2 = 4.5 22.5 -79 2555 11. Pavel Makarov Russia 4 1 10 0 6 1 2 0 1 0 5 1 7 0 9 0 8 0 12 1 3 0 4 + 6 2395 12. Takashi Sagara Japan 9 = 8 1 5 0 3 0 4 0 10 1 6 0 2 0 1 0 11 0 7 = 3 -145 2524 ----------------------------------------- Womens World Championship in China 1999 Score Table for Group W Circular Tournament No.Name round 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Po Be Place RIF rating +/- 1 Chie Japan 2 0 4 = 5 1 12 0 9 = 11 0 7 1 14 0 13 0 3 33 14 -- Tatsutomi 2 Lin Jing China 1 1 3 0 15 0 6 = 10 0 5 = 13 1 4 = 7 0 3.5 34.5 12 -- 3 Elena Russia 4 1 2 1 8 1 14 0 15 = 12 1 10 0 16 = 6 1 6 3 -32 2028 Lebedeva 4 Mi Xiaoyan China 3 0 1 = 7 0 11 = 16 0 6 0 5 1 2 = 9 0 2.5 16 -- 5 Yao Jinrui China 6 0 7 = 1 0 16 0 11 0 2 = 4 0 13 1 15 1 3 31 15 -- 6 Tan Suping Chinese 5 1 8 0 10 0 2 = 13 0 4 1 16 + 7 1 3 0 4.5 38 8 -- Taipei 7 Irene Estonia 8 0 5 = 4 1 13 1 12 0 16 0 1 0 6 0 2 1 3.5 34 13 -14 1693 Einberg 8 Yulia Russia 7 1 6 1 3 0 10 1 14 1 15 1 9 = 12 1 11 1 7.5 1 + 7 2125 Savrasova 9 Anastasiya Russia 10 1 12 1 14 0 15 0 1 = 13 1 8 = 11 = 4 1 5.5 39 5 + 3 1913 Leshukova 10 Irina Russia 9 0 11 1 6 1 8 0 2 1 14 = 3 1 15 1 12 1 6.5 2 -29 2095 Metreveli 11 Hu Xi China 12 0 10 0 16 = 4 = 5 1 1 1 15 = 9 = 8 0 4 10 -- 12 Tsai Yihua Chinese 11 1 9 0 13 = 1 1 7 1 3 0 14 1 8 0 10 0 4.5 42 7 -- Taipei 13 Chen Chinese 14 0 16 1 12 = 7 0 6 1 9 0 2 0 5 0 1 1 3.5 34.5 11 -- Mingchiao Taipei 14 Lu Yao China 13 1 15 = 9 1 3 1 8 0 10 = 12 0 1 1 16 = 5.5 42.5 4 -- 1944 15 Olga Russia 16 1 14 = 2 1 9 1 3 = 8 0 11 = 10 0 5 0 4.5 43 6 +18 1916 Skouridina 16 Mutsumi Japan 15 0 13 0 11 = 5 1 4 1 7 1 6 - 3 = 14 = 4.5 34.5 9 -- 1823 Tatsutomi ------------------------------------------------------------- 6th Renju World Championship in China Score Table for Group B Circular Tournament NoName round 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Po Pl RIF rating +/- 1 Kang 2 0 3 0 31 = 7 1 32 0 30 1 36 0 28 = 22 = 3 33 -- Zhicheng 2 Goran 1 1 6 1 11 0 34 0 5 1 29 1 12 0 17 0 20 0 4 22 -16 2219 Holgersson 3 Hiroshi 4 = 1 1 35 0 36 0 33 1 25 1 10 0 20 1 34 = 5 13 -44 2281 Sakamoto 4 Chang 3 = 35 = 5 1 10 = 29 0 31 1 6 1 8 = 23 0 5 12 -- 2234 Yifeng 5 Yu 6 0 7 1 4 0 32 1 2 0 36 1 29 0 26 0 13 = 3.5 27 -- 2105 Jingping 6 Albert 5 1 2 0 10 0 17 1 14 0 32 1 4 0 36 = 18 1 4.5 18 -67 2383 Poghosyan 7 Viktor 8 0 5 0 9 = 1 = 13 0 33 0 28 = 30 + 27 0 2.5 34 -56 2004 Kaufman 8 Vitaly 7 1 10 1 15 = 11 = 12 1 21 = 23 0 4 = 35 = 5.5 7 +99 2171 Lunkin 9 Sergey 10 0 12 0 7 = 16 0 28 0 27 0 30 + 19 1 24 1 3.5 30 -25 2187 Chernov 10Tord 9 1 8 0 6 1 4 = 36 1 35 0 3 1 15 0 14 0 4.5 17 - 1 2313 Andersson 11Chen 12 1 13 1 2 1 8 = 15 = 34 1 35 0 23 1 21 0 6 5 -- 2262 Wei 12Hideki 11 0 9 1 13 1 14 1 8 0 24 1 2 1 34 1 15 1 7 2 -25 2544 Nara 13Peter 14 1 11 0 12 0 31 0 7 1 16 0 18 0 27 1 5 = 3.5 26 - 8 2124 Jonsson 14Masao 13 0 16 1 18 1 12 0 6 1 20 1 34 0 29 = 10 1 5.5 11 - 7 2374 Mitsumori 15Anders 16 1 18 1 8 = 29 1 11 = 23 = 21 0 10 1 12 0 5.5 8 +16 2367 Henningsson 16Joachim 15 0 14 0 17 0 9 1 19 1 13 1 20 0 32 0 28 1 4 23 -48 2268 Gaulitz 17Kyozo 18 0 19 0 16 1 6 0 27 1 22 1 24 1 2 1 29 1 6 6 -43 2405 Isobe 18Chen 17 1 15 0 14 0 19 1 20 0 26 0 13 1 22 = 6 0 3.5 25 -- 2153 Chenguo 19Li 20 0 17 1 24 0 18 0 16 0 28 1 32 0 9 0 30 + 3 32 -68 2135 Dong 20Andrey 19 1 21 0 25 0 22 1 18 1 14 0 16 1 3 0 2 1 5 15 +78 2158 Khramov 21Bai 22 1 20 1 23 0 26 1 25 1 8 = 15 1 35 1 11 1 7.5 1 -- Tao 22Guan 21 0 24 0 28 1 20 0 30 1 17 0 27 = 18 = 1 = 3.5 28 -- Jixian 23Shao 24 1 25 1 21 1 35 = 34 = 15 = 8 1 11 0 4 1 6.5 3 -- 2244 Xiadong 24Chen 23 0 22 1 19 1 25 0 26 1 12 0 17 0 33 0 9 0 3 31 -- 2087 Longquan 25Zhang 26 1 23 0 20 1 24 1 21 0 3 0 33 1 31 = 32 1 5.5 10 -- Maolong 26Su 25 0 28 1 27 1 21 0 24 0 18 1 31 0 5 1 33 1 5 16 -- 2188 Liang 27Zhao 28 1 29 0 26 0 33 0 17 0 9 1 22 = 13 0 7 1 3.5 29 -- Kai 28Li 27 0 26 0 22 0 30 0 9 1 19 0 7 = 1 = 16 0 2 35 -- 2179 Shihwen 29Sergey 30 1 27 1 34 = 15 0 4 1 2 0 5 1 14 = 17 0 5 14 +27 2164 Volkov 30Zhang 29 0 31 0 33 0 28 1 22 0 1 0 9 - 7 - 19 - 1 36 -- Hui 31Liu 32 0 30 1 1 = 13 1 35 0 4 0 26 1 25 = 36 = 4.5 19 -18 2216 Tong 32Alexander 31 1 34 0 36 = 5 0 1 1 6 0 19 1 16 1 25 0 4.5 21 +58 2120 Nosovsky 33Peeter 34 0 36 0 30 1 27 1 3 0 7 1 25 0 24 1 26 0 4 24 +46 1844 Tamm 34Sergey 33 1 32 1 29 = 2 1 23 = 11 0 14 1 12 0 3 = 5.5 9 +15 2285 Filippov 35Petter 36 1 4 = 3 1 23 = 31 1 10 1 11 1 21 0 8 = 6.5 4 +41 2413 Gardstrom 36Alexander 35 0 33 1 32 = 3 1 10 0 5 0 1 1 6 = 31 = 4.5 20 -59 2313 Milevsky ----------------- Renju WC in China 1999 Table of results from Qualification tournament 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th No. Name round round round round round round round Ber Po RIF rating +/- 1. Mikhail Kozhin RUSSIA 8 1 5 1 2 1 7 1 3 = 4 = 10 1 6 +33 2584 2. Vladimir Sushkov RUSSIA 17 1 11 1 1 0 4 1 5 1 10 1 3 0 30 5 +21 2492 3. Stefan Karlsson SWEDEN 19 1 6 = 7 0 15 1 1 = 16 1 2 1 26.5 4 - 4 2492 4. Igor Sinyov RUSSIA 14 = 13 1 6 1 2 0 7 1 1 = 5 = 30 4.5 +19 2453 5. Pavel Makarov RUSSIA 15 1 1 0 18 1 14 1 2 0 7 1 4 = 27.5 4.5 - 4 2389 ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- 6. Petter Gardstrom SWEDEN 18 1 3 = 4 0 13 1 10 0 11 1 8 1 25.5 4.5 +11 2372 7. Sergey Filippov RUSSIA 9 1 10 1 3 1 1 0 4 0 5 0 17 1 30.5 4 +27 2285 8. Andrey Khramov UZBEK. 1 0 15 0 19 1 9 1 14 1 13 1 6 0 24.5 4 +24 2080 9. Yifeng Chang CHN T 7 0 17 1 15 0 8 0 -- 1 14 1 16 1 20 4 -- 10. Albert Poghosyan ARMENIA -- 1 7 0 14 = 11 1 6 1 2 0 1 0 26 3.5 -41 2450 11. Artis Gaujens LATVIA 12 1 2 0 13 = 10 0 15 1 6 0 19 1 23.5 3.5 + 8 2168 12. Dong Li CHINA 11 0 -- 1 16 0 17 0 18 1 19 1 13 = 15.5 3.5 -- 2203 13. Tong Liu CHINA 16 1 4 0 11 = 6 0 19 1 8 0 12 = 27.5 3 -- 2234 14. Shihwen Li CHN T 4 = 16 1 10 = 5 0 8 0 9 0 18 1 25.5 3 -- 15. Wei Chen CHINA 5 0 8 1 9 1 3 0 11 0 17 0 -- 1 24 3 -- 16. Tord Andersson SWEDEN 13 0 14 0 12 1 18 1 17 1 3 0 9 0 23.5 3 -12 2314 17. Chenkuo Chen CHN T 2 0 9 0 -- 1 12 1 16 0 15 1 7 0 22.5 3 -- 18. Juris Skuskovniks LATVIA 6 0 19 1 5 0 16 0 12 0 -- 1 14 0 2 -21 2064 19. Peeter Tamm ESTONIA 3 0 18 0 8 0 -- 1 13 0 12 0 11 0 1 -24 1798 ------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 00:30:07 +0200 Renju Newsletter No 64 - 1999 ------------------------------------------------- Now I am home again from China using my own computer. I have put some more info that you can find from the URL-address: http://www.renju.nu/wc99/wc99.htm It is Games from round 1-10 in A-tournament (Zipped Wordfiles). An image showing the 3 best players in A-tournament: 2nd Igor Sinov, 1st Ando Meritee, 3rd Stefan Karlsson RIF was founded on August 8, 1988. Now it is August 8, 1999 and RIF is 11 years. ------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 09:06:33 +0200 Renju Newsletter No 51 - 1999/Final agenda for GA --------------------------------------------- Please, cheque the agenda below and inform me by sending e-mail to Na Wei in China with a short info that the letter is to me: Na Wei has the e-mail address: hannahhou@snc.schmidtgroup.com The Agenda of The RIF General Assembly 1999. ============================================ Agenda of the RIF General Assembly 1999 during the WC in Beijing China. The General Assembly will be held in two parts. The first part will take place on Monday 26th of July 9.00 a.m. (In the morning). The time for the 2nd part of General Assembly will be 4th of August but the exact time will be decided on the 1st part. Part 1 1. Opening of the General Assembly (and election of the chairman of the assembly) 2. Election of the secretary of the assembly 3. Election of 3 persons to check the minutes and 3 scrutineers 4. Approval of this agenda and roll-call 5. The number of players in A-tournament and in Qualification Tournament (QT). 5a. Players in AT. Paragraph #5e from the RIF Extra General Assembly in Riga on August 7, 1992: "The organizing federation for the World Championship has one free place in the A-tournament, if the federation does not have any PP(Personal Places) or NP(National Places)." My proposal is 13 players which means 7 players decided from last WC, 1 player from China as organizer and 5 players decided from QT. Swedish federation propose that we should also consider the alternative to arrange this WC with 14 players which means 7 players decided from last WC, 1 player from China as organizer and 6 players decided from QT. 5b. Member fee paid? For having player in AT it is necessary that the member has paid the member fee. For QT it is necessary for having 3 places that the RIF member has paid its member fee. Non-members and members that have not paid the fee have 1 place in QT. How this rule should be interpreted for the actual situation in WC in China must be decided in this point. 6.Adopting of Chinese Taipei as a member of RIF with member rights regarding number of participants in QT. RIF Statues Chapter 2: "2.1 Members of RIF are national renju federations which have principal authority in their own countries and which have been admitted to RIF as member-federation, if they acknowledge the RIF statutes and develop activities not contrary to these statutes. A federation can only be regarded as a National Federation if it has been legally constituted. and recognized in a State which is an entity of International Law or which is at least fully autonomous in the administration of Culture and Sports." Chinese Taipei is counted as having fully autonomous in the administration of Culture and Sports in Olympic games organization. It is meant that the same conditions should be for Chinese Taipei within RIF as in Olympic organization. 7. Approval of additional playing rules (Rules that are not in the RIF playing rules) suggested by Chinese organization for WC 1999. 8. Approval of agenda for other acitivites during the WC-days 1999. (Suggestion for 2 short agendas was sent in Renju Newsletter No 50) 9. Decision which players with bad economic situation that will get free lodging in China. 10.Other questions that may come up and that I have no knowledge about now. Part 2 1. Opening of the General Assembly (and election of the chairman of the assembly) 2. Election of the secretary of the assembly 3. Election of 3 persons to check the minutes and 3 scrutineers 4. Approval of this agenda and roll-call 5. Annual report from the President 6. Annual report from the Treasurer and the Auditor (A report has been sent via e-mail to members and connection men within RIF and a report was also announced to subscribers of Renju Newsletter.) 7. Approval of the work of the Central Committee for the last two years 8. The budget and the membership fee for the period July 1999 - August 2000 or also for July 2000 - August 2001 9. Election of the Central Committee: Suggestion: President Tommy Maltell (re-election) Vice President Kosho Hayakawa (re-election) Vice President Alexander Nosovsky (re- election) General Secretary Peter Jonsson (re-election) Treasurer Stefan Karlsson (re-election) Auditor Lars B. Melin (re-election) 10. The number of players in A-tournament in WC in Japan 2001. We also have to decide wheather the rule in paragraph #5e from the RIF Extra General Assembly in Riga on August 7, 1992: "The organizing federation for the World Championship has one free place in the A-tournament, if the federation does not have any PP(Personal Places) or NP(National Places)." shall be left or not for future WC (2001 maybe is not so interesting but we do not know about 2003). Personally I think that of many reasons it is of great importance for organizing country to have this right left. If we decide to keep this rule we also have to decide if it should mean that one more players then should take place in A- tournament or if it will be one place less in QT. In this point it could also be decided once again which will be the rules for places in WC 2001 to avoid future misunderstandings. 11. Reports from all RIF Commissions. Should the commissions remain as they work today? The following commissions have worked within RIF for two years. a) THE RULES COMMISSION. It should work with the playing rules and also investigate possibilities for new rules. Chairman: Aldis Reims, Latvia. Other members: Norihiko Kawamura, Japan Kazuto Hasegawa, Japan Yurij Tarannikov, Russia Mikael Kozhin, Russia Ando Meritee, Estonia Arsen Avetisyan, Armenia Sergei Varov, Armenia Nikolai Ponomarenko, Ukraine No report has been sent to me. Only Tarranikov has sent his personal report which was published in Renju Newsletter No 49 The Rules Commission has also not sent report about suggestion for making the RIF rules better regarding grammatics. b) THE SPORTS COMMISSION. It should work with the organization of international tournaments and also recommend which of the tournaments who should be counted in the rating list. Chairman: Konstantin Nikonov, Russia Other members: Kazuto Hasegawa, Japan Viktor Kaufman, Russia Stefan Karlsson, Sweden Na Wei, China Arnis veidemanis, Latvia Ants Soosorv, Estonia Albert Pogosyan, Armenia Nikolai Ponomarenko, Ukraine A report was publsished in Renju Newsletter No 49 c) THE CORRESPONDENCE COMMISSION:It should investigate and decide eventual new rules for the next WC via e-mail. Chairman: Norihiko Kawamura, Japan (Withdrawal during the period) New chairman during the period : Oleg Fedorkin, Russia. Other Members: Yurij Tarannikov, Russia Tommy Maltell, Sweden Ando Meritee, Estonia Aldis Reims, Latvia Na Wei, China Albert Pogosyan, Armenia Vladimir Kolesnik, Ukraine Rickard W. Rognlie, USA A report was published in Renju Newsletter No 32 d) THE QUALIFICATION COMMISSION. It will work with the rating list and make suggestions for the General Assembly in case of new rules. Chairman: Bengt Asplund, Sweden Other Members: Kazuto Hasegawa, Japan Sergei Smirnov, Russia Felix Degtiar, Byelorussia Na Wei, China Ants Soosorv, Estonia Artis Gaujens, Latvia Nerses Grigorian, Armenia Nikolai Ponomarenko, Ukraine No report has been sent to me. It is possible to send it directly to Na Wei in China before 4th of August. e) THE TRANSLATION COMMISSION. The task will be to try to translate Renju rules into each language of the connection men. If possible it will also translate the book “ The Click Of Stones” into English. Chairman: Na Wei, China Other Members: Norio Nishizono, Japan Alexandr Nosovsky, Russia Ando Meritee, Estonia Gatis Gurtskis, Latvia Albert Pogosyan, Armenia Oleg Mostovlansky, Byelorussia No report has been sent to me. f) THE EUROPE COMMISSION. It will try to start Renju activities in new countries and also help other european “not established countries” to develop Renju activities. Chairman: Peter Jonsson, Sweden Other Members: Alexandr Nosovsky, Russia Ants Soosorv, Estonia Albert Pogosyan, Armenia Nikolai Ponomarenko, Ukraine No report has been sent to me. It is possible to send it directly to Na Wei in China before 4th of August. g) THE REFEREE COMMISSION: It will see that a system for referee categories will be set up. National federations should apply for candidates for international referees. In future all international championships must have an appointed international referee. The chairman should be the referee of the WC via e-mail and when difficult problems occure he should ask the commission for help. Chairman: Alexei Skuridin, Russia Other members: Hiroyuki Tatsutomi, Japan Pavel Salnikov, Russia Felix Degtiar, Byelorussia Ants Soosorv, Estonia Artis Gaujens, Latvia Nikolai Ponomarenko, Ukraine Albert Pogosyan, Armenia A report is published in Renju Newsletter No 49 h) THE YOUTH COMMISSION. It should work with youth activities. Chairman: Alexei Skuridin, Russia Other members: Hiroyuki Tatsutomi, Japan Anders Bertilsson, Sweden Na Wei, China Ants Soosorv, Estonia Gurgen Karapetyan, Armenia Valentin Uspensky, Ukraine A report is published in Renju Newsletter No 49 12.Suggestion from Alexander Nosovsky: Every Chairman of RIF Commission have to send report to President about commission activity before 10 of May each second year. 13.Elections for delegates in all RIF Commissions. The former delegates are listed below. 14.Future international tournaments - Report from Sports Commission a. Team World Championship in May 2000 in Tallinn, Estonia b. Youth World Championship in July 2000 in Arjeplog, Sweden The Arjeplog club propose also to organise an Open International Tournament during the same week as the Youth World Championship. c. World Championship in end of July - beginning of August in Japan 2001 d. Year 2003 e. See also report from Commission in this matter for example regarding 2003 and Mind Sports Olympiad. 15. Other questions 16.End of General Assembly ------------------------------------------------ Date sent: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 07:31:06 +0200 Renju Newsletter No 50 -1999 ------------------------------------------------- This is the last Renju Newsletter that I will send from my home. Next Renju Newsletter I will send to Rickard Johannesson from China and he will send it to the subscribers. If you want anything to be published send it to Rickard (with a copy to me ordinary address). You can also send it to China to Na Wei with a message that it is meant for me E-mail addresses: "Rickard Johannesson, Sweden" "Na Wei, China" During WC in China Rickard will also publish Renju Newsletter om the following URL-adress: http://members.tripod.com/wc99_renju/index.html -------------- Letter from Japan: Date sent: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 12:46:12 +0000 From: Tatsutomi Hiroyuki http://www.central.kfuk-kfum.se/renju/index.htm ------------------------------------------------ Latest RIF rantings before WC http://www.renju.nu/rating/ra990715.htm http://www.renju.nu/rating/rc990715.htm ------- This is the new agenda for Renju WC which meet majority's interests. It is 2 agendas. One with only 11 rounds in AT and one with 13 rounds in AT. Which it will be will be decided on General Assemply part 1 which will take place on 26th July 9:00 (a.m.) ------------------------------------------- 13th rounds agenda 23th July Organizing Committee move into Winterless Hotel Banquet 24th July 14:00 RIF China Meeting 18:00 Banquet 25th July Sightseeing 17:00 Football match 26th July 9:00- RIF General Assembly 27th July Qualification Tournament 8:00-12:00 Round 1 13:00-17:00 Round 2 17:30-21:30 Round 3 28th July 8:00-12:00 Round 4 13:00-17:00 Round 5 17:30-21:30 Round 6 29th July 8:30-12:00 Round 7 30th July Start of tournament A & B and Women's tournament 12:00 Opening Ceremony 15:00-20:00 Round 1 (A & B, Women's tournament) (time to be decided)Round 2 (A) 31th July 9:00-14:00 Round 2 (B, Women's tournament) Round 3 (A) 15:00-20:00 Round 3 (B, Women's tournament) Round 4 (A) 1st August 9:00-14:00 Round 4 (B, Women's tournament) Round 5 (A) 15:00-20:00 Round 5 (B, Women's tournament) Round 6 (A) 2nd August 9:00-14:00 Round 6 (B, Women's tournament) Round 7 (A) 15:00-20:00 Round 7 (B, Women's tournament) Round 8 (A) 3rd August 9:00-14:00 Round 8 (B, Women's tournament) Round 9 (A) 15:00-20:00 Round 9 (B, Women's tournament) Round 10(A) 4th August 9:00-14:00 Round 10 (B, Women's tournament) Round 11 (A) 15:00-20:00 Round 12 (A) 12:00- RIF General Assembly 5th August 13:00-18:00 Round 13 (A) 15:30-17:30 CCTV Live Broadcasting 18:30 Closing Ceremony --END-- ------------------- 11 rounds agenda 23th July Organizing Committee move into Winterless Hotel Banquet 24th July 14:00 RIF China Meeting 18:00 Banquet 25th July Sightseeing 17:00 Football match 26th July 9:00- RIF General Assembly 27th July Qualification Tournament 8:00-12:00 Round 1 13:00-17:00 Round 2 17:30-21:30 Round 3 28th July 8:00-12:00 Round 4 13:00-17:00 Round 5 17:30-21:30 Round 6 29th July 8:30-12:00 Round 7 30th July Start of tournament A & B and Women's tournament 12:00 Opening Ceremony 15:00-20:00 Round 1 (A & B, Women's tournament) 31th July 9:00-14:00 Round 2 (A & B, Women's tournament) 15:00-20:00 Round 3 (A & B, Women's tournament) 1st August 9:00-14:00 Round 4 (A & B, Women's tournament) 15:00-20:00 Round 5 (A & B, Women's tournament) 2nd August 9:00-14:00 Round 6 (A & B, Women's tournament) 15:00-20:00 Round 7 (A & B, Women's tournament) 3rd August 9:00-14:00 Round 8 (A & B, Women's tournament) 15:00-20:00 Round 9 (A & B, Women's tournament) 4th August 9:00-14:00 Round 10 (A & B, Women's tournament) 14:30 RIF General Assembly 5th August 13:00-18:00 Round 11 (A) 15:30-17:30 CCTV Live Broadcasting 18:30 Closing Ceremony --END-- Sincerely, Na Wei -------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 15:24:43 +0200 Renju Newsletter No 49 - 1999 -------------------------------------------------- Hiroyuki Tatsutomi will try to try to change his flight 26/7 to 25/7 and then he will arrive at Beijing airport at 18:10. And on July 26th morning, we can have General Assembly part 1 If he can not change his flight he regrets to say that Japan is absent on General Assembly part 1 and the General Assembly part 1 can take place on July 25th 18.00 as earlier announced. ---------------------------------------------------- With this Renju Newsletter I send you some reports mainly from RIF Commissions. But first I want to get help with a difficult problem. Because of difficulties with sponsors China WC organizer cannot offer free lodging for more than 10 planers with poor economic situation. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx OBSERVE!!!!!!!!! It is up to RIF General Assembly (or RIF CC) to decide about this problem. I have received application from Russia about the situation for Russian players. However I have little knowledge about conditions for players from other countries so, please, quickly give me more such information/application at the latest tomorrow 18.00 Swedish time if you or players from your country needs free lodging because of poor economic situtation. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx If you will read this letter in time, please, send your application to Na Wei in China as soon as possible so that he will receive it before the General Assembly part 1. He has e-mail: hannahhou@snc.schmidtgroup.com I cannot point out what is most import for getting this free lodging. Many aspects will be taken inte consideration on the Assembly. It is up to you when you make your application to point out why you or your player should One is if the country is a member of RIF and if the country has paid member fee and when the country paid its member fee the last time it paid. Another is the status of playing. For example if the player is qualified for A-tournament or Q-tournament he has better chance than if he only wants to play in open B-tournament. Another is the personal sitation. Children living for example with only one parent with difficulties for parent to send the child to WC. ----------- Member fee situation is very bad: 94-95 95-96 96-97 97-98 98-99 Armenia Not paid USD 50 Not Paid Not Paid Not Paid Azerbai Not paid Not paid USD 50 Not Paid Not Paid China USD 50 Not Paid Not Paid Japan USD 500 USD 200 USD 200 USD 200 Not Paid Latvia USD 100 USD 50 USD 50 Not Paid Not Paid Russia USD 500 USD 200 USD 200 USD 200 Not Paid Sweden USD 500 USD 200 USD 200 USD 200 USD 200 Ukraine USD 50 Not Paid 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 Byellorussia USD 100 USD 75 USD 25 Not Paid Not Paid Not Paid Estonia USD 100 USD 75 USD 50 USD 50 USD 50 Not Paid ------------ The last news from Nizhny Novgorod. The final of 13th N.Novgorod championship is over. The final standing is: place name p coef. 1 Kareev Vladislav 6 dan 9 31 2 Petrovsky Dmitry 4 dan 6 16 3 Karasjov Maxim 4 dan 6 14 4 Skuridin Alexey 6 dan 6 14 5 Shevelev Sergey 4 dan 5 18 6 Shatunov Alexander 2 kju 3 9 7 Lonin Alexander 4 kju 2 2 8 Oljunin Sergey 4 dan 1 9 Gorshenkov Artur 3 dan 1 10 Grishnin Stepan 2 kju 1 Karasjov have got higher place then Skuridin because won the personal game. The Last three players missed several games. The same tame the 10th N.Novgorod Cup is finished. V. Kareev won the superfinal match against A. Skuridin 4:1. That way, Vladislav Kareev became really the strongest renju player in Nizhny Novgorod. Friendly yours, A. Skuridin --------- THE ANNUAL REPORT OF RIF SPORTS COMMISSION, 1998-1999: "b) THE SPORTS COMMISSION. It should work with the organization of international tournaments and also recommend which of the tournaments who should be counted in the rating list. Chairman: Konstantin Nikonov, Russia Other members: Kazuto Hasegawa, Japan Viktor Kaufman, Russia Stefan Karlsson, Sweden Na Wei, China Arnis Veidemanis, Latvia Ants Soosorv, Estonia Albert Pogosyan, Armenia Nikolai Ponomarenko, Ukraine " "13. Reports from all RIF Commissions. Every member of a commission must inform his chairman if he wants to go on with his task. Every chairman has to inform me before 1st of July in the report mentioned above which players that do not want to go on. If the chairman has proposals for new delegates he should include such proposals in this report. If he has no such proposals CC can try to find new delagates. " 1. NEW MEMBERS I had no any messages from members of Sports Comission in this connection. It means that members of Sports Comission will be re-elected or the national federations will propose other delegates during GA. New RIF-members must be represented in Sports Comission. 2. LAST TWO YEARS INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS Last two years RIF organized: World Youth Championship in China, World Team Championship in Armenia was frustrated, European Championship in Estonia, Youth European Championship in Russia, World Championship, Women World Championship in China. 3.FUTURE INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS. APPLICATIONS a. Team World Championship in May 2000 in Tallinn, Estonia. (Estonia as Organizer ask a permission to apply for second (youth Estonian) team). b. Youth World Championship in July 2000 in Arjeplog, Sweden (The Arjeplog club propose also to organise an Open International Tournament during the same week as the Youth World Championship). c. European Championship in the end of December 2000 in Ukraine (The test tournament will be organized by Ukraine in December 1999 or in the spring 2000 depend on the RIF GA decision). d. Youth European Championship in summer 2001 in Ukraine. c. World Championship in end of July - beginning of August 2001 in Japan. Information about 2002-2003 applications: 1. Russia would like to organize the World Youth Championship in 2002. 2. Proposal from Chinese Taipei: If we Chinese-Taipei can be adopted as a member of RIF, we'd like to organize the 8th WC in 2003. 4. OTHER INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENTS Members of Sport Comission (national delegates) will inform Sports Comission about national federations applications in accordance with established order. 5. INFORMATION ABOUT MIND SPORTS OLIMPIAD 2000 Tommy Maltell: In earlier Renju Newsletters I have informed you about Mind Sports Olympiad. This year a Renju tournament is not included. I suggest that on GA RIF will decide to act so that it will be a renju tournament next year and that a new commission will take care of the preparations. David Levy: But for next year I would like to start the planning as soon as poossible if we can have some help. This year we have a 100,000 prize fund and next year we expect to have at least that muvch and maybe more. If you can help us to get a lot of Renju/Gomoku players we will offer very nice prizes. If there is some important tournament in your calendar for which you want a host (e.g. European Championship) we would be interested. Dates for 2000 are August 19-27. Best Regards, Konstantin Nikonov --------------------------------------------- The report of the RIF referee commission Chairman: Alexey Skuridin, Russia Other members: Hiroyuki Tatsutomi, Japan Pavel Salnikov, Russia Felix Degtiar, Byelorussia Ants Soosorv, Estonia Artis Gaujens, Latvia Nikolay Ponomarenko, Ukraine Albert Pogosyan, Armenia Dear RIF President, Dear RIF Secretary, Dear members of the RIF referee commission, There was one meeting of the commission (in 1997, during WC) only. Another time I’m afraid the RIF referee commission did not work at all. In all probability it was my fault. During the meeting same changes of the International rules of renju were discussed. So I suggest to adopt them in the GA. I. The point 4.4. should be added into paragraph 4. (The Way to Play): «A double-three, a double-four and an overline are prohibited for black, if five in a row is not attaining at the same time. There are no any prohibited moves for white». The following sentence should be added into paragraph 8 (Wrong Position): «If player have made prohibited move, his opponent have to claim about this trouble. The position must be reconstructed (with referee control) as it was before, and the game will continue». Paragraph 9 (Win of Game) became following: 9. . The winner of the game is a player who have first attained five in a row. For White overline is also counted as a win. 9. . The game is won for the player, who’s opponent gives up the game. 9. . The game is won for the player, who’s opponent time is expired (the stipulated number of moves is not made within the stipulated time). The work of establishing the rank of referee’s categories and ordering of awarding referee’s categories will be made by new referee commission. Two years ago nobody from China and Sweden were elected as member of the RIF referee commission. I suggest to elect representatives from China and Sweden as member of the RIF referee commission. With best wishes A. Skuridin ----------------------------------------- The report of the RIF Youth Commission Chairman: Alexey Skuridin, Russia Other members: Hiroyuki Tatsutomi, Japan Na Wei, China Ants Soosorv, Estonia Gurgen Karapetyan, Armenia Valentin Uspensky, Ukraine Anders Bertilsson, Sweden Dear RIF President, Dear RIF Secretary, Dear members of the RIF Youth Commission, Unfortunately we have had no much contacts in our commission during the past years. But everybody must realise that children are future of our game, so the Youth Commission is one of the important RIF Commission. The two European Youth championships and one the World Youth championship were held during this two years. All this tournaments were held with good organization level. But it were merit of same persons (Ants Soosyrv, Na Wei, Irina Metrevely), who were chief organizers, not all commission. I’d like to mention one pity thing. The representation of same countries in Youth competitions leaves much to be desire. So the both European Youth championships look like Russian open ones. As far personalities concerned I believe everybody work hard in their own countries. So I suggest to reelect everybody ones again. I also suggest to elect Irina Metrevely as member of the RIF Youth Commission. She works hard with children in her own city, many her pupils have won Russian, European and World Youth championships, local authority support the Podjuga renju club financially and organizely (so I’m sure there will be many Youth competitions in Podjuga in future). In future We (the RIF Youth Commission) ought not to organize Youth competitions only, but work out and publish same programs and materials which help coaches in their work, the programs and materials which attract new people (children especially) to play renju. I think it must be the main task of the Commission. With best wishes A. Skuridin. ------------------------------------- Dear Tommy! I am a member of two RIF commissions. Here I give my opinion about actual problems in these fields. With best wishes, Yuriy Tarannikov. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- a) THE RULES COMMISSION. Chairman: Aldis Reims, Latvia. Other members: Norihiko Kawamura, Japan Kazuto Hasegawa, Japan Yurij Tarannikov, Russia Mikael Kozhin, Russia Ando Meritee, Estonia Arsen Avetisyan, Armenia Sergei Varov, Armenia Nikolai Ponomarenko, Ukraine Unfortunately, I don't know anything about the consolidated work of this commission. I had not contacts with our chairman Mr. Reims. Personally during last two years I continued to discuss the Renju rules problems with other Russian players and also by mail with some Japanese players (including RIF commission members Mr. Hasegawa and Mr. Kawamura). Also during Russian First League I have organized Renju players opinion poll about quality of current opening rules and some possible variations of its changing. Here I give my analyse of these polls and discussions. The main conclusion is that of course during some next years current opening rules must be kept. This conclusion is based on very good statistical data of current opening system and that the public opinion is still unready for its changing. Call the advantages of the current opening system. The main aim of all rules changing process - "an equality of chances of the sides" - is completely decided. All statistical parameters demonstrate "an equality of chances". Now we have 2 openings with ideally equal statistics and some other openings with quite acceptable one. The percent of ties is rarely greater than 1/3, and usually it is significantly smaller. During public opinion poll mentioned above the majority of respondents estimated highly the quality of current opening system by all parameters and voted against all proposed variants of its changing (I included to the list all main suggestions known for me). There exist also some other reasons that are not appeared usually in the articles and public discussions because of a some shame. The practice and history shows that the game to be a popular must be a little foolish. In public discussions some authors declared that the ideal situations is when the strongest player always beats more weak player. But in sush situation average players to be beaten by extra player can lose the interest and leave the game. With current opening system an average player starting the game has a real chance to make a draw against the extra player and if the extra player will risk and avoid usual continuations then an average player can even win. Nevertheless still the extra players decided this problem. For example, Nakamura and Meritee take frequently 100% points in some tournaments. The quite restricted set of usually playing variants is criticized sometimes. But many players have breaks in the playing and also they have not time for serious home analyses. The current opening situation allows them to have good tournament results without serious home work. Indeed, the number of new opening ideas is quite small and it is possible to study its in the tournament hall and the hotel during some first rounds. It is possible simply to keep some main equal continuations and if an opponent tries to avoid its this can has problems for an opponent. Such situations is unpleasant of course for some leading players and theorists but it allows to keep in a Renju sphere many usual players. Nakamura and Meritee need in some other players. Moreover, an average player want to be seemed as a solid player who plays surely and solidly against the extra player a long variant but not a foolish boy who lost after ten moves. It is clear from mentioned above that the number of players who tend to do some correction in the opening system is greater among the strongest players but it is impossible to do this while we have not a complete public opinion support. In this connection the great significance the question of our future actions has. What next? It is wide agreed that the main problem of the current opening system is a restricted set of using continuations. The problem of "an equality of chanced" is decided. But new big problem is the problem of a playing variety. Still the situation is quite acceptable. We see that the new variants are appeared sometimes. But the majority of the authors wrote that "the current rules are sufficient for 4-5 years of the playing". But that we'll have after these 4-5 years? Suppose that after these 4-5 years we'll understand that this period is finished and it is necessary to change opening rules. But the set of possible suggestions is very wide. It will be necessary in a short time to find a common solution that satisfies all parties. Here we have a risk to have a new split in Renju. Even if this solution will be found the new rules can be psychologically unacceptable for many (conservative) players. Suddently to play new positions without any theory - this can be too many for them and they can leave Renju. We must take into consideration that with every new years the number of unexpected opening situations in real games will decrease and this fact concentrates only the stress effect of suddent changing. I see the only decision of this problem in development of consolidated future opening rules for a very long time before the eventual rules changing. The RIF must establish official "future opening rules" with such an official status. This status don't mean that such rules will be actually forced to a law in some moment. The rules under such status can be changed if the tests show that it have lacks. Moreover, it is impossible to decide new rules without its serious testing. Sometimes I read in the articles that nobody can play using another Renju rules than the official RIF rules. But before to adopt new opening rules it is necessary to test its in a very big number of testing tournaments. So this process must be supported by RIF and it must be controlled by RIF. Official "future opening rules" must be agreed by all (main) RIF members. Official "future opening rules" can be declared as official RIF Renju rules at least after two years after last changing of the "future opening rules". During these time the advantages of "future opening rules" must be verified in a big number of testing tournaments. The games with using of these rules must be published in Renju editions. A big number of games and new variants with using of the "future opening rules" must be contained in Renju databases. New interesting variants must be analysed in the theoretical articles. The main aim of all this process is that before the changing of opening rules the "infrastructure" for new rules must be created. The Renju public opinion must be ready for new rules. A usual Renju player must have a long time to prepare quietly to play using new rules. A usual Renju player must be sure that he'll have sufficient time for preparation and adaptation and that the rules will not be changed suddently and somebody who developed these rules will take a great advantage as a result of this. The last changing of Renju opening rules in 1996 was a good step but it was not good prepared (although this changing was a minimal with easy predicted consequences). New changing of the opening rules must be prepared a much more seriously. In the next part of this text I analyse concrete suggestions of the changing of opening rules. I note that these are not my personal suggestions and I ask to don't consider the next as "Tarannikov's suggestions". The all next ideas were proposed by another Renju players and here is only my critical analyse of this. The main discussion on the problem of opening rules changing is the fight of supporters of "creative variety" and supporters of "classic traditions" (although the second party has also other hidden reasons mentioned above). The main subject of this discussion is canonical openings. Mr. Nosovsky suggested even to define a Renju as a game with the 26 canonical openings. The first party suggests to introduce very revolutional openings. It is obviously that it is necessary to satisfy the interests of the both parties. It is very interesting that we have not contradiction here! Now in Renju we have a tradition that the opening period continues five moves (a choice of the althernative after 5th move). So we can keep the canonical openings and realize "creative variety" at 4th and 5th moves by means of possibility to change the sides after 5th moves. It is very interesting that in the first Renju book in English: Goro Sakata, Wataru Ikawa, "Five-in-a-row (Renju). For beginner to advanced players". The Ishi Press, Inc., Tokyo, 1981, in the chapter "Renju in the future" such idea is suggested. So we can say that this way satisfies to Japanese traditions. I heard also that Hayakawa's Group in Japan in the recent years developed something similar. The next question is it necessary to restrict 4th and 5th moves or not. Must we allow the 4th and 5th moves near the edge of the board or not? I heard from many players that such moves don't like them and its seems them a little strange and unnatural. So we must not disturb such players. How it is possible to restrict these moves? The central square 5x5 is too small for this aim and it don't cover all present theory (it is clear we must keep all present theory). I think that the most reasonable idea is THE RULE OF CONCENTRIC SQUARES. Namely, the first move must be made to the center of the board (inside of the central square 1x1), the second move must be made inside of the central square 3x3, the third move must be made inside of the central square 5x5, the fourth move must be made inside of the central square 7x7, and the fifth move must be made inside of the central square 9x9. This is a nice systematic rule which generalize by natural way the classic rule of the canonical openings. Moreover, four bold points at the classic Renju board take a new mistic sense punctured the central square 9x9. I heard the THE RULE OF CONCENTRIC SQUARES from some persons, for example, from Mr. Oleg Stepanov. It is interesting that in Stepanov's database there are only 3 games that don't satisfy to the rule of concentric squares. Moreover, these are not real games but Sakata's analyses. The remained problem is on the procedure how the moves from 1st till 5th must be made. There are some suggestions here. Goro Sakata and Wataru Ikawa in the book mentioned above proposed the next rules: "a. Moves 1 through 3 are made according to the present rules. (White's Option) b. Moves 4 and 5 are made by Black. c. White has the right to change sides after the 5th move is played. He carefully examines whether the formation up to 5 looks good for him or for his opponent. In the former case he continues to play White and in the latter case he changes sides and plays Black. d. The 6th and subsequent moves are free just as they are under the present rules." This system has the lack that Black must know equal pairs of 4th and 5th moves in all 26 openings. Moreover, White will propose the opening mostly hard for the finding of an equal pair of 4th and 5th moves. Really this is a similar situation that we had before 1996 when almost all players preferred indirect openings. Other suggestion is that Number One make all five moves, and Number Two choose the color. Here the significant part of the players have an opinion that the Number One can have a big advantage if he proposes a very sharp variant prepared during the home analyses where the only moves of both sides allows to keep an equilibrium. Indeed, suppose the two players of the same playing strenght but Number One knows the main five moves position of 11d as a modern player and proposes this position for the playing whereas Number Two doesn't know about this position anything. Who is from these two players will have an advantage? Other negative situation is when Number One proposes well-known simple equal position and makes a draw easily. So this system doesn't seem good too. It seems the mostly harmonic the next system proposed by Nostradamus (the anonymous author) in Moscow Almanakh (also the similar suggestions were appeared before). THE NOSTRADAMUS RULE: after each move from 1st until 5th the opponent of the player who made the last move could either make the next move or demand this from opponent. An equivavalent formulation: it is possible to change the sides after each move from 1st till 5th. It seems that in cooperation with the rule of concentric squares the Nostradamus rule gives a good result. The Number Two can force the Number One to make all five moves but in this case obviously the Number One proposes the position well-known for him. Also at the same moment the Number Two can take an initiative to his own hands (using that the first move is unique, and the number of variants of 2nd and 3rd are small). But the Number One can take an initiative again. This procedure promises an interesting opening fight where the interests of different playing temperaments will be satisfied. Because of bad work of RIF rules commission it is technically impossible to introduce official "future opening rules" status and accept some concrete opening system as such "future opening rules" at the following RIF General Assembly. But the RIF General Assembly can task the RIF rules commission to do this work for 2000 RIF General Assembly. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- c) THE CORRESPONDENCE COMMISSION. Chairman: Norihiko Kawamura, Japan (Withdrawal during the period) New chairman during the period: Oleg Fedorkin, Russia. Other Members: Yurij Tarannikov, Russia Tommy Maltell, Sweden, Ando Meritee, Estonia, Aldis Reims, Latvia, Na Wei, China, Albert Pogosyan, Armenia, Vladimir Kolesnik, Ukraine, Rickard W. Rognlie, USA. The complete annual report of this commission was given by its chairman Mr. Fedorkin. Here I give my argumentation on the discussed problems. Mr. Fedorkin suggests some reforms of e-mail World Championships organization. The main reason for such reform by opinion of Mr. Fedorkin is the significant growing of the number of participants. Mr. Fedorkin approximates surely this process. Of course, the statistical values demonstrate really that in the current semifinals the number of started participants increased significantly (in the previous semifinals this increasing was a minimal) but at the same time I don't sure that the number of finished participants will grow at all! It seems that the number of the players who doesn't finish in these semifinals is near a half of total number of participants! Such large number of forfeits is absolutely unacceptable and it can distorts the natural results of the tournaments. I don't think that we must support such "growing". I don't consider the fight in the semifinals in all details. So the analyse of these phenomena must be made. Maybe some players could not decide their technical problems. It seems that it took place a large number of "fictive" players who was declared in the tournament to support a favourite (in report I saw the term "black userids" but these words could be considered as a rasism and can not be allowed in official documents). When the favourite lost the chances to win a first place these "fictive" players left the tournament. Because the participants don't pay fees it is not a problem to declare 12 "fictive" players (3 to each pool) and guarantee a solid support. From this point of view the introduction of a quaterfinal stage could a little simplify situation. From pool to the next stage two players instead of one will qualify. To support the system of "fictive" players in the semifinals is not a simple problem and it is a hero who can do this. So I think the introduction of a quaterfinal stage is a good step. But after introduction of a quaterfinal stage to predict a growing of the number of participants is very doubt conclusion. Some players will decide probably that two years way to the final is too long, the number of "fictive" players will decrease significantly. Moreover, I want to recall that in the first World e-mail Championship it was a rule that a player who left the tournament can not play at the next year. I did not hear that this rule was cancelled although it did not work (some players forfeit all games every year but nevertheless play every year too). But I think that the situation forces us to use this rule. In this connection the concrete parameters suggested by Mr. Fedorkin seem absolutely unreal. Mr Fedorkin proposed 12 players in the final and 36 players in the semifinals. In this situation it is quite probable that we shall not complete even one quaterfinal group! Suppose we declare the creation of the quaterfinals but can not find the participants for them and as a result all desired players again play in the semifinals (only some players didn't give an application because they didn't want to play in the quaterfinals). It will be a full discreditation of the idea. It seems natural that the distribution of the participants over the stages must be similar a pyramid. Something like 10-20-30 (these are quite real parameters). Moreover here we keep 10 players in a pool whereas Mr. Fedorkin wrote that now the participants of the semifinals play in the pools of 12 - too hard - and ... suggested to establish 12 players in all pools! Three last finals demonstrate that 10 players in the final is a very harmonic number. In all these three finals the champion was determined by absolute correctly. It seems that 22 games will be too many, and in the one-round final the champion could be determined not quite correctly. Why we must change something here without serious reasons? Some players want to extend a format of the final because it is hard for them to qualify for the final now. But THIS IS NOT A PROBLEM OF THE FINAL! We can establish 30 players in the final and play it using the Silly system but I don't think that this is a good way. Whereas 30 players in the final plus semifinal pools is a very reasonable decision now. Analysing present semifinal pools we can see near 20 really strong players here and to organize the semifinal stage for them without random players is a right decision I think. If we shall see that the number of participants even using three-steps system is significantly greater than 60 then we must extend a format of course. But to say "the decision depends on the number of applicants" is not a good way. Suppose we decided that in the case of a "small" number of applicants 2-5 places in the previous semifinal pools play in new semifinals but in the case of a "large" number of applicants 2-9 places in the previous semifinal pools play in new semifinals. What the participant who was the sixth will do? Of course he organizes 20 fictive applications. About Cups for Winners problem. Mr. Reims played an important role in the organization of these tournaments at its initial stage. So I think it is fair that he have received his Cup. Now I think it is not reasonable to demand money from RIF for these Cups. I think that it is sufficiently a virtual fame for the virtual winners. By the way I played in some other tournaments (in other games) at PBeM server and I can say that Renju tournament is the only tournament at the server where the participants are mentioned also under there real names. In all other games the panticapants are mentioned in the tables and other materials at all sites only as userids. Maybe we had and have some strange and conflict situations because of we want to add by virtual way something to our earth fame? MY PERSONAL VOTING: Should we play RIF Renju e-mail tournaments with two or only one game between the participants? TWO The number of WCH via e-mail participants will increase in final in 2001 (final of 6th WCh via e-mail) from 10 now. NO win. Could we reward the winners of WCh via e-mail by Cup? ONLY MR. REIMS MY QUESTION FOR THE VOTING: Must we forbid to participate in the next year e-mail tournament according to the previous decision to the players who had forfeits in the significant number of the games in the current tournaments? How we must determine this number (absolute value, proportion or something else?) -------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 01:02:49 +0200 Renju Newsletter No 48 - 1999 -------------------------------------------------- Results of the qualifications of the Meijin-sen tournament 1999 Kansai 1st R1 R2 R3 R4 Pt TB1 TB2 Rank RIF rating 1 Yoshimi Hayakawa 7-1 5-1 2-1 6-1 4 1 +28 2511 2 Teiji Takagawa 8-1 6-1 1-0 9-1 3 10 2 -- 2265 3 Toshiko Matsuo 9-= 10-0 4-= 7-0 1 9 10 - 7 2124 4 Masayuki Hata 10-= 9-0 3-= 11-1 2 6 2 8 -- -- 5 Yoshihiro Matsuo 11-1 1-0 12-0 8-0 1 8 11 -27 2230 6 Hiroshi Sakamoto 12-1 2-0 7-1 1-0 2 11 4 -22 2319 7 Akihisa Iwata 1-0 11-1 6-0 3-1 2 7 7 + 5 2129 8 Jumzo Miyagawa 2-0 12-0 11-1 5-1 2 6 1 9 -- 2178 9 Shigemasa Koiso 3-= 4-1 10-= 2-0 2 9 5 -24 2273 10 Yoshihiro Iio 4-= 3-1 9-= 12-1 3 8 3 -- -- 11 Takatoshi Kondo 5-0 7-0 8-0 4-0 0 12 -- -- 12 Koichi Iida 6-0 8-1 5-1 10-0 2 8 6 -- -- Kansai 2nd RIF rating Yoshimi Hayakawa * 1 1 1 +14 2525 Teiji Takagawa 0 * 1 0 -20 2245 Yoshihiro Iio 0 0 * 0 -- -- Hiroshi Sakamoto 0 1 1 * + 6 2325 Kanto 1st R1 R2 R3 R4 Pts TB1 Rank RIF rating 1 Hisashi Takahashi 2-1 3-1 5-0 10-0 2 11= 5 -- 2258 2 Masao Mitsumori 1-0 10-1 8-1 5-1 3 9 1 +10 2405 3 Izumi Kubo 4-1 1-0 9-1 8-1 3 6= 3 -- -- 4 Yasuhiro Adachi 3-0 6-1 10-0 7-1 2 8 6 -- -- 5 Yasuhiro Kato 6-1 8-= 1-1 2-0 2= 4 -- -- 6 Hiroshi Okabe 5-0 4-0 7-0 9-1 1 6= 9 -- -- 7 Shoki Sunagawa 8-0 9-0 6-1 4-0 1 5= 10 -12 2241 8 Masato Kusajima 7-1 5-= 2-0 3-0 1= 7 - 1 2335 9 Shunzo Ohno 10-0 7-1 3-0 6-0 1 8 8 -- -- 10 Taizan Isobe 9-1 2-0 4-1 1-1 3 8 2 -11 2445 Kanto 2nd RIF rating Hideki Nara * 1 1 1 +21 2569 Masao Mitsumori 0 * 0 1 -24 2381 Taizan Isobe 0 1 * 1 + 3 2448 Izumi Kubo 0 0 0 * -- -- Tokai 1st R1 R2 R3 R4 Pts TB1 Rank RIF rating 1 Takeo Miyoshi 2-1 3-1 5-1 7-1 4 1 +51 2361 2 Yasushi Maruyama 1-0 4-1 3-0 8-1 2 9 4 -18 2283 3 Tsuyoshi Ohta 4-1 1-0 2-1 5-1 3 2 +24 2337 4 Koji Saito 3-0 2-0 8-1 6-1 2 6 6 -14 2226 5 Nagayoshi Takazawa 6-1 7-1 1-0 3-0 2 10 3 - 1 2221 6 Yasuhiro Yamamoto 5-0 8-1 7-0 4-0 1 7 -44 2105 7 Jun-ichiro Suzuki 8-1 5-0 6-1 1-0 2 7 5 + 2 2091 8 Goichi Miyadu 7-0 6-0 4-0 2-0 0 8 -- -- Tokai 2nd RIF rating Takeo Miyoshi * 0 1 1 +14 2375 Tsuyosi Ohta 1 * = 0 + 2 2339 Nagayoshi Takazawa 0 = * 1 +21 2242 Shin-ichi Ishitani 0 1 0 * -37 2440 Kyushu 1st (Group A) RIF rating Hisao Fujinami * 1 = 1 -- -- Kazuhisa Yamaguchi 0 * 1 1 -- -- Tadanobu Tanaka = 0 * 1 -- -- Masayoshi Tanimori 0 0 0 * -- -- (Group B) RIF rating Shoichi Sakashita * 1 1 1 1 + 0 2362 Naoki Fujii 0 * 1 1 = -- -- Kaneo Tanaka 0 0 * 1 1 -- -- Kikumaro Hiwatasi 0 0 0 * 1 -- -- Masatoshi Kohno 0 = 0 0 * -- -- Kyushu 2nd RIF rating Hisao Fujinami * 1 1 = 1 = -- 2414 Kazuhisa Yamaguchi 0 * 1 1 0 1 -- -- Shoichi Sakashita 0 0 * 1 1 1 + 4 2366 Toshio Nishimura = 0 0 * = 1 -18 2398 Naoki Fujii 0 1 0 = * 0 -- -- Kaneo Tanaka = 0 0 0 1 * -- -- Chu-Si Koku RIF rating Hiroshi Matsuura * 1 1 1 +23 2365 Kozo Kawate 0 * 1 1 - 4 2301 Masanori Kanda 0 0 * 1 -- 2173 Takeshi Kubooka 0 0 0 * -- -- ------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 11:45:10 +0200 Renju Newsletter No 47 - 1999 ------------------------------------------------- Renju Newsletter No 46 which is mainly a testmessage will be sent by Richard Johannesson. ------------------------ Dear Tommy, Would you remind all countries to bring their national flag (standard size) and 2 pieces of photo with them when they come to the Would Championship. Thanks! Sincerely, Na Wei ------------------------------ The first part of General Assembly will take place on Sunday 25th of July 18.00 (06.00 p.m.) I need to know which will be the representatives from different countries on the General Assembly both part 1 and part 2 which will take place during the main tournament. Therefore I ask all chairmans/presidents or international connection men to inform me which will be the representative and if there will be no representative for example during the first part of the General Assembly you must inform me about this fact. Also other persons of course can inform me if they know the fact that I want to receive. I need your info at the latest on Monday 20h of July 16.00 (04.00 p.m.) Swedish time. I will be away for some days and I will answer evental letters in the evening of Monday 20th of July. Maybe I will change the agenda a little if there will be few representatives on the 1st part. However, the following point have to be decided on the first part. 1. The number of players in A-tournament and in Qualification Tournament (QT). My proposal is 13 players which means 7 players decided from last WC, 1 player from China as organizer and 5 players decided from QT. Swedish federation propose that we should also consider the alternative to arrange this WC with 14 players which means 7 players decided from last WC, 1 player from China as organizer and 6 players decided from QT. 2. Chinese Taipei players rights to participate in QT. 3. Decision about addition playing rules for the tournaments. 4. Decision about other activites during WC in China. -------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 10:47:57 +0200 Renju Newsletter No 46 - 1999 ----------------------------- This is a short Renju Newsletter sent by Rickard Johannesson in Sweden. During Renju World Championship in China you will receive Renju Newsletter from me. All Renju Newsletters that I have sent will also be published on the URL-adress: http://members.tripod.com/wc99_renju/index.html Friendly Yours, Rickard Johannesson http://members.tripod.com/wc99_renju/index.html ------------------------------------------------ Date sent: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 22:46:38 +0200 Renju Newsletter No 45 - 1999 ------------------------------------------------ During WC in China I hope that it will be possible several times to send some Renju Newsletters with new info from WC tournaments. While I am in China myself Richard Johannesson from Joenkoping, Sweden will send you Renju Newsletter. Therefore if you have some renju news that you think should be included in next Renju Newsletter during July 21st - August 6th, please, send it to Richard (with a copy to me). The latest day that I will check my mail before I go is on the 20th of July. Richard has e-mail rickard.j@telia.com Organizer of Renju WC in China Na Wei has e-mail hannahhou@snc.schmidtgroup.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- International Renju Open tournament in Karepa 1-5 July 1999 - Changing of ratings RIF rating 1. Ando Meritee (EST) 8p +15 2695 2. Stefan Karlsson (SWE) 7 +10 2496 3. Ants Soosyrv (EST) 6 -11 2404 4. Evelyn Tihkan (EST) 4 +28 1920 5. Pavel Voznyuk (EST) 4 +18 1954 6. Johann Lents (EST) 3 -30 1967 7. Maris Tuvikene (EST) 3 + 5 1854 8. Irene Einberg (EST) 1 -35 1707 9. Marko Pellikka (FIN) 0 -- The new updated RIF rating lists will be found on the following URL- addresses: http://www.renju.nu/rating/ro990706.htm http://www.renju.nu/rating/rc990706.htm For myself I can now see the RIF web site without any problems. If you cannot find the pages mentioned above or the RIF web site i.e. if it is still problem to see the RIF web site, please, let me know. ------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 18:59:28 +0200 Renju Newsletter No 44 -1999 ------------------------------------------------- Dear Renju friends, Following is the updated players namelist for the 6th World Championship in Beijing. Please let us know if we missed out anyone. So far Chinese Taipei has not send name list. Qualification Tournament Aldis Reims Latvia Arnis Veidemanis Latvia Gatis Gurckis Latvia Artis Gaujens Latvia Makarov Pavel Russia Peeter Tamm Estonia Stefan Karlsson Sweden Tord Andersson Sweden Petter Gardstrom Sweden Li Dong China Liu Tong China Chen Wei China A Tournament Kazuto Hasegawa Japan Norio Nishizono Japan Takashi Sagara Japan Yshimi Hayakawa Japan Ando Meritee Estonia Ants Soosyrv Estonia Zhang Jin Yu China B Tournament Juris Skuskovniks Latvia Arnis Veidemanis Latvia Artis Gaujens Latvia Nossovski Alexandre Russia Milevsky Alexandre Russia Lunkin Vitaly Russia Filippov Serguei Russia Tchernov Serguei Russia Smirnov Serguei Russia Kaoufman Victor Russia Makarov Pavel Russia Masao Mitsumori Japan Kyozo Isobe Japan Shinich Ishitani Japan Hideki Nara Japan Hiroshi Sakamoto Japan Hiroyuki Tatsutomi Japan Joachim Gaulitz Sweden Peter Jonsson Sweden Martin Karlsson Sweden Kristian Lindberg Sweden Stefan Karlsson Sweden Tord Andersson Sweden Petter Gardstrom Sweden Goran Holgersson Sweden Peeter Tamm Estonia Yu Jing Ping China Zhang Mao Long China Kang Zhi Cheng China Guan Ji Xian China Shao Xiao Dong China Women's Tournament Mutsumi Tatsutomi Japan Chie Tatsutomi Japan Olga Skouridina Russia Irina Metreveli Russia Elena Lebedeva Russia Yulia Savrasova Russia Irene Einberg Estonia Lu Yao China Lin Jing China Meanwhile, following people's status is not clear: Sinvev Igor Russia Sineva Lioubov Russia Sinva Vera Russia Kojine Mikhail Russia Souchkov Vladimir Russia Khramov Andrey Uzbekistan Albert Pogoyan Armenia Aleksey Kobzev Armenia marine Minasyan Armenia Please let us know if above people enroll any tournament. Sincerely, Na Wei President of RIF China ------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 23:57:28 +0200 Renju Newsletter No 43 - 1999 ------------------------------------------------- Results for 1999 July 4th US Open: 1st place: Vladmir Talsky (3 wins) 2nd place: Wil Huang (2 wins, 1 loss) 3rd place: Nickolai Alesandrov (1 win, 2 losses) 4th place: Slava Brover. Alexander Nosovsky ------------------------- Results from MOSCOW OPEN - 12.06.1999 - 14.06.1999 28 participants and with the winner Vladimir Sushkov, Gatchina, Russia wil be found on the URL-address: http://www.renju.nu/moscow/mosopen99.htm which is the same as http://195.84.172.147/renju/moscow/mosopen99.htm In the folder: http://www.renju.nu/moscow/ which is the same as http://195.84.172.147/renju/moscow/ you can also find an excel-file and a prn-file from this event. Alexander Nosovsky ---------- On the 5th of July ended the annual International Renju Open tournament in Karepa summer camp. In A-final, 9 players took part. Round-robin. the final standings are: 1. A. Meritee (EST) 8p (from 8) 2. S. Karlsson (SWE) 7 3. A. Soosyrv (EST) 6 4. E. Tihkan (EST) 4 5. P. Voznyuk (EST) 4 6. J. Lents (EST) 3 7. Maris Tuvikene (EST) 3 8. I. Einberg (EST) 1 9. M. Pellikka (FIN) 0 Best regards Ando Meritee ------------------ These are the results with RIF rating changes from the latest tournaments. THE SECOND YOUTH EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP IN RENJU played in Poduga, Russia 15 - 20 June 1999 Group A Po RIF rating 1. Klimashin Alexandr RUS 9 - 7 2475 2. Ses Pavel RUS 8.5 +21 2353 3. Chingin Konstantin RUS 8.5 +22 2277 4. Shevelyov Sergey RUS 7.5 +10 2177 5. Eriksson Marcus SWE 5 -48 2012 6. Egorov Vitaly RUS 5 -- 7. Nogovitsin Sergey RUS 4.5 + 2 1967 8. Losyakov Sergey RUS 3 -- 9. Devichensky Anton UKR 3 -- 10. Mikryukov Mikhail RUS 1 -- 11. Maltsev Sergey RUS 0 -- Group B Po RIF rating 1. Taimla Tunnet Estonia 9.5 - 4 2197 2. Nekrasov Denis Russia 9 -- 3. Novikov Nikolay Russia 9 -- 4. Diner Stanislav Russia 8 -- 5. Lents Johann Estonia 6.5 + 4 1997 6. Ogorodov Sergey Russia 6.5 -18 1908 7. Ryabov Alexandr Russia 6 -- 8. Devichenskiy Ilya Ukraine 6 -- 9. Kazarin Mikhail Russia 6 -- 1951 10. Vershinin Pavel Russia 6 -- 11. Hermansson Linus Sweden 5.5 -15 2042 12. Grishnin Stepan Russia 5 -- 13. Nekrasov Evgeny Russia 5 -- 14. Sumarokov Evgeny Russia 5 -- 15. Prokhorov Vitaly Russia 5 -- 16. Korolyov Alexey Russia 4 -- 17. Provorov Yuri Russia 4 -- 18. Dukhno Evgeny Russia 2 -- 19. Popov Alexandr Russia 1 -- 20. Alexandrov Yuri Russia 1 -- Group C Po RIF rating 1. Lebedeva Elena RUS 9 +24 2060 2. Skalozubova Elena RUS 7.5 -- 1892 3. Sorokina Oxana RUS 5 -24 1835 4. Tuvikene Maris EST 5 -58 1849 5. Prokhorova Elena RUS 2.5 -- 6. Zakatova Evgeniya RUS 1 -- Group D Po RIF rating 1. Savrasova Yuliya Russia 2 dan 9 -- 2118 2. Mikhailova Alyona Russia 3 kyu 8 -- 3. Leshukova Anastasiya Russia 1 dan 7.5 +17 1910 4. Zhukova Ekaterina Russia 1 kyu 7 -- 5. Sichkar Ekaterina Russia 2 kyu 7 -- 6. Melnikova Alyona Russia 6 kyu 7 -- 7. Chizhkina Elena Russia 3 kyu 6.5 -- 1810 8. Krasnonosova Serafima Russia 2 kyu 6.5 + 8 1824 9. Kocheshkova Olga Russia 4 kyu 6 -- 10. Sokolova Anastasiya Russia 1 kyu 6 -15 1879 11. Timokhina Nadezhda Russia 6 kyu 6 -- 12. Gross Anna Russia 4 kyu 5.5 -- 13. Erenberg Yuliya Russia 6 kyu 5.5 -- 14. Yudina Mariya Russia 4 kyu 5.5 -- 15. Zvereva Anna Russia 7 kyu 5 -- 16. Nedashkovskaya Alyona Russia 5 kyu 4 -- 17. Voronova Natalya Ukraine 3 -- 18. Shubina Viktoriya Russia 6 kyu 3 -- 19. Tyuttina Alexandra Russia 10 kyu 1.5 -- 20. Parunova Elena Russia 7 kyu 0.5 -- Swedish WC Qualification Final in renju played in Alby & Uppsala 26-30 June 1999 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 Po Place RIF rating 1. Stefan Karlsson Stockholm = 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 6.5 1 +24 2486 2. Tord Andersson Uppsala = 1 = 1 0 0 1 1 5 2 +46 2326 3. Petter Gardström Uppsala 0 0 1 = 1 1 0 0 3.5 3 -58 2361 4. Joachim Gaulitz Stockholm 0 = 0 1 0 0 1 1 3.5 4 -26 2316 5. Linus Hermansson Hogsjo 0 0 = 0 0 0 1 0 1.5 5 +14 2056 ------------------------------------------------ Date sent: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:15:06 +0200 Renju Newsletter No 42 - 1999 ------------------------------------------------ The results from The Second Youth European Championship in Renju Poduga, 15 - 20 June, 1999 will be found from the URL-address: http://195.84.172.147/renju/youthec99/youthec99.htm or if it works on the URL-adress: http://www.renju.nu/youthec99/youthec99.htm Short info: Gr A, Older boys, 1st Alexander Klimashin, Russia, tot 11 players Gr B, Young boys, 1st Tunnet Taimla, Estonia, tot 20 players Gr C, Older girls, 1st Elena Lebedeva, Russia, tot 6 players Gr D, Young girls, 1st Yuliya Savrasova, Russia, tot 20 players ---------------------------- Swedish WCQ We have now played 6 days(10 rounds) of the Swedish Final Qualification tournament to World Championship in Beijing, China. That means the tournament is over and the three QT players from Sweden are selected: SK, TA och PG. The participants were: TA = Tord Andersson PG = Petter Gardström JG = Joachim Gaulitz LH = Linus Hermansson SK = Stefan Karlsson Round IX (played in Alby): TA-PG 0-1 SK-JG 1-0 Round X (played in Alby): JG-PG 1-0 LH-TA 0-1 Final Results: 1. SK 6½ 2. TA 5 3. PG 3½ (14,25) 4. JG 3½ (9) 5. LH 1½ With best renju-greetings, Stefan Karlsson --------------------------------------- New option on Richard W. Rognlie´s play by mail server: http://eiss.erols.com/~pbmserv/ It is now possible to make a "pass" when you play renju using the server. ------------------------------------------ Letter from Domino Federacion Internacional. Maybe some of you can help this organization with information requested in this letter. Date sent: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 18:27:46 +0200 From: Domino Federacion Internacional Send reply to: fedintdomino@geocities.com To: tommy.maltell@lemes.se Subject: Looking for domino players Dear Sir / Miss, I am writing to you because I need to find associations and persons related to the game of dominoes. We are trying to setup the Internantional Federation of Domino and we would like that every country might be part of it. Would you be so kind to do some research for us? We just look for people, or better clubs, associations or federations of dominoes players (with tiles not with cards). We will apreciatte any kind of information you can give us (please send it by fax or e-mail). Thank you in advance for your atention, yours sincerely, Eduardo Petreñas -- Federación Internacional de domino mailto:fedintdomino@geocities.com http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/5291/ ------------------------------------------------- Date sent: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 23:40:19 +0200 Renju Newsletter No 41 - 1999 ------------------------------------------------- We have now played 4,5 days(8 rounds) of the Swedish Final Qualification tournament to World Championship in Beijing, China. The three best will have places in QT in WC. The participants are: TA = Tord Andersson PG = Petter Gardström JG = Joachim Gaulitz LH = Linus Hermansson SK = Stefan Karlsson Round VIII (played in Alby): LH-PG 1-0 TA-SK 0-1 Standings after 8 rounds(in brackets how many games played so far): 1. SK 5½ (7) 2. TA 4 (6) 3. PG 2½ (6) JG 2½ (6) 5. LH 1½ (7) With best renju-greetings, Stefan Karlsson

Renju Newsletter July - December 1999

Renju Newsletter No 41-51, 65-108 1999